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When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversi

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. – Maggie Gallagher

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Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the others eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire. – Maggie Gallagher

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. – Winston Churchill

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We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics. – Hubert H. Humphrey

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Politics

It isnt fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that shes taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her. – Dee Dee Myers

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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. – Daniel Webster

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The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. – Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force. – John Cleese

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I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. – Antonin Artaud

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The books are funny and sad, and thats what people respond to. – Paula Danziger

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