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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. - L

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. – Lord Acton

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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. – Lord Acton

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Morning
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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. – Lord Acton

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History
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. – Lord Acton

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Change
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Living in Washington, you cant take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they dont believe because they get paid to. – Tucker Carlson

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The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy cant be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office – that all of the worlds problems arent his predecessors fault. – Sarah Palin

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Im no expert on American politics. – Bjorn Lomborg

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All people are born alike — except Republicans and Democrats. – Groucho Marx

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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit. – Abu Bakar Bashir

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The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that shes not just annoying. Its that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesnt have time because she has so much going on in her brain. – Mary Lynn Rajskub

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