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The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the cons

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. – Mark Twain

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I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed — in a modified way — 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance. – Mark Twain

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Smoking
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain

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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who has never learned to walk. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations. – Henry Kissinger

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The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because its the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained. – Gerda Lerner

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That mans the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. – Hendrik Willem Van Loon

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I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad – experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But theres no question women are paid less. Women dont ask. – Dee Dee Myers

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