#pol

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#foundation #future #lay #offense

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#knot #method #political #teeth #tongue

The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes. ↗

— James W. Black

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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There's nothing like turning on the radio and listening to the high-speed chase that you're leading police on! ↗

— Danny Bonaduce

#high-speed #leading #like #listening #nothing

There is a thin line between politics and theatricals. ↗

— Julian Bond

#line #politics #theatricals #thin

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes. ↗

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

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In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#democracy #models #other #political #regions

In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models. ↗

— Omar Bongo

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