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We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away. ↗

— Plutarch

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I think that what we've been able to do is put together both a good group of scholars and analysts and people who aggressively want to make the case to the American public. ↗

— John Podesta

#aggressively #american #american public #been #both

In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left. ↗

— John Podesta

#best #blended #center #clinton #fact

America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#because #documents #elevated #founding #great

As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#during #economic #economically #federal #generates

So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I think they're hungry for that rather than just political rhetoric. ↗

— John Podesta

#dialogue #discussion #facts #gives #hungry

As a member of the Mormon church, Romney is instructed to tithe 10 percent of his income. That's in keeping with most charitable giving: Religious institutions get about one-third of all contributions, according to 'The American' magazine. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#according #american #charitable #church #contributions

Conservatives have long been suspicious that Romney isn't truly one of them. The release of his tax returns should settle the matter once and for all: He's not only to be accepted, but admired and emulated - and by liberals as well as conservatives. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#admired #been #conservatives #his #liberals

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#desperate #electoral #grown #happen #happening

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#ago #effect #exertion #faith #happy