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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corr

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. – Jonathan Swift

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Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybodys face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. – Jonathan Swift

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The essential ingredient of politics is timing. – Pierre Trudeau

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Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I havent done or some place that Ive never been or dont even know. Its just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics. – Hilary Duff

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The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both. – John Cornyn

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As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now Im not going to say what they were. – Julie Christie

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God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality. РJacques Rigaut, Pens̩es

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