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There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S. ↗

— James K. Polk

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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity. ↗

— Plutarch

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Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good. ↗

— Buddha

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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

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Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale. ↗

— Earl Browder

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The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right. ↗

— David R. Brower

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It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they? ↗

— Manuel Puig

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