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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness it

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. – John Updike

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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. – John Updike

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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. – Jonathan Swift

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Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. – Adrian Cronauer

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It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights. – James Bovard

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Its very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth. – Jimmy Carter

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Im still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things. – Katy Perry

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Millions long for immortality who dont know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. – Susan Ertz

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Its just a way of trying to get to a third thing thats not particular to any quote-unquote genre. Its been great for me its really opened me up and gotten me to use that part of my imagination. Its very scary in a lot of ways, and just as exciting. – Charlie Hunter

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