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People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. – Dan Quayle

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The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda. – Dan Quayle

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power
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Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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[T]he Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. – Thomas Carlyle, Characteristics

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History

It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology. – Leopold von Ranke, History of the Popes

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History

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life. – Stephen Ambrose

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God has editing rights over our prayers. He will… edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted. – Stephen Crotts

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The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. – Tom Clancy

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Never put a sock in a toaster. – Eddie Izzard

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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the misers passion, not the thief s. – William Blake

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