Quote by Thomas Huxley
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politic

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. – Thomas Huxley

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. – Thomas Huxley

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Time
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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. – Thomas Huxley

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Science
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The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. – Thomas Huxley

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Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. Its authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys. – Thomas Frank

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Politics

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many. – James McGreevey

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Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable. – Charles Kennedy

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We do not stop playing because we grow old.
We grow old because we stop playing. – Anon.

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