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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves m

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. – John Updike

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. – John Updike

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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – John Updike

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Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child.& Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. – John Updike

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I learned why out riding alone is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse. – Jane Smiley

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I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone. – Flip Wilson

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Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day. – Sophocles

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It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness. – Bruce Barton

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