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Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?
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In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that…
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Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.
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There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.
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The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never…
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It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that…
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Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as…
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Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to…
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which…
— Walter Bagehot
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Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
— Alec Baldwin
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To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away…
— Dennis Banks
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But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent.
— Stephen Breyer
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We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.
— Stephen Breyer
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You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents.
— Dick Cheney
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It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest, and so…
— Marcello Malpighi
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