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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. ↗

— Henry Adams

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All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

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You can unite behind a candidate and a vision for America without rejecting another candidate and their vision, because in real life, opposed to party politics, we Democrats are on the same side. ↗

— Joe Andrew

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In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself. ↗

— Simon Armitage

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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ↗

— Richard Armour

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If love had feathers and tasted like dog food, then I suggest you wear shoes with your banana pudding. (This statement also defines my political beliefs). ↗

— Jarod Kintz

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But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

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War is the ultimate tool of politics. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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From politics, it was an easy step to silence. ↗

— Jane Austen

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We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism. ↗

— August Bebel

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