Quote by Gore Vidal
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, hes been bough

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, hes been bought ten times over. – Gore Vidal

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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. – Gore Vidal

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Birds
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. – Gore Vidal

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Time
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. – Gore Vidal

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Government
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I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. Its just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions. – David Attenborough

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Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time. – George S. Patton

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Time

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. – Denis Waitley

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Time

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. – Rabindranath Tagore

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When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this ones too tall and that one doesnt have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one – theres a billion reasons not to hire somebody. – Harvey Fierstein

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When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath. – Svatmarama, Hatha Yoga Pradipika

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And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best? – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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I have the problems of, I must confess, old age. – Billy Graham

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