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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by militar

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. – Mary McCarthy

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Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility. – Mary McCarthy

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Racism
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Mary McCarthy
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You musnt force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex. – Mary McCarthy

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work
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Mary McCarthy
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Politics
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Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium. – John B. S. Haldane

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Politics

Theres a rule of thumb in politics. If youre at a point where youre complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, thats probably a sign that youre losing. – Laura Ingraham

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Politics

Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more. – Rip Torn

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Politics

If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner. – Lindsey Nelson

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Politics

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You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess. – Loretta Lynn

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sad

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty. – Jeremy Collier

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Learning

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. – Woodrow Wilson

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Politics

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But Id like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash. – Ruth Ann Minner

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Death