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Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they dont know what the

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they dont know what they are conserving. – Robertson Davies

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The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need. – Robertson Davies

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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. – Robertson Davies

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There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics. – Imran Khan

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. – John Quinton

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My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself. – Antonio Tabucchi

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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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Abscond. To move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another. – Ambrose Bierce

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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. – Thomas Paine

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