If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured. – Stendhal
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Given the daunting challenges that we face, its important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one. – Valerie Jarrett
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron – namely, that he is a blockhead. – Ambrose Bierce
Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? – Mary Douglas