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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. ↗

— John Tillotson

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Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate. ↗

— Bob Ehrlich

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The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment. ↗

— Lyman Trumbull

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It's a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the absurdity and preposterous reality that is accepted amongst the ones who are inside. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

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You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. ↗

— Daniel Webster

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On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions. ↗

— Daniel Webster

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It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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