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This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and…
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Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and…
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Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning…
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Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny…
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Whereas liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say…
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Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.
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Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that…
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Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism…
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When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and…
— Sol LeWitt
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I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by…
— Martin Amis
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Basketball teams, after the perfunctory lay-up drill, fall into the crowded isolation and personal style of 10 city kids shooting at the…
— Ted Solotaroff
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If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by…
— Michael Leunig
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I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one.…
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
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Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and…
— Lewis Mumford
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You can tell by the applause: There's perfunctory applause, there's light applause, and then there's real applause. When it's right, applause sounds…
— Skitch Henderson
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Speakers find joy in public speaking when they realize that a speech is all about the audience, not the speaker. Most speakers…
— Nick Morgan
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