#cian

Thank God!" he said, and kissed her. Kissing Mairelon was much nicer than anything she had ever dared to imagine, despite the headache. ↗

— Patricia C. Wrede

#magic #magicians #imagination

If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world. ↗

— Claude Pepper

#better #country #election #generation #instead

It’s not true I think all politicians are morons. Morons are far too intelligent to be politicians.
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— Jarod Kintz

#moron #politicians #politics #intelligence

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe. ↗

— Karl Pearson

#apparently #carried #dealing #description #endless

If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians? ↗

— Deb Caletti

#charming #dictionary #liars #magic #magicians

On average, women are better liars than men. But the best liars are men, because politicians are still predominantly men.
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— Jarod Kintz

#liars #lie #life #lying #men

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation. ↗

— James Freeman Clarke

#generation #next #next election #politician #statesman

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. ↗

— Texas Guinan

#down #fellow #his #lay #life

Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of these petty passions and petty crimes which calls itself the world of politics. ↗

— Vladimir Odoevsky

#politics #life

There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy. ↗

— Dizzy Gillespie

#homeopathy #musicians #life