"Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After……" — Matsuo Basho

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• The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the… — Lord Acton
• Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads… — Russell Baker
• When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it… — Otto von Bismarck
• I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending… — Erma Bombeck
• I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true… — Bono
• If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live… — Les Brown
• And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any… — Madeleine Albright
• The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism. — Taylor Caldwell
• I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable… — Samuel Alito
• When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got… — Dick Cheney
• War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out… — Carl von Clausewitz
• Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings. — Sparky Anderson

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