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“Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.”

Book:The Crown of Wild Olive

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The Crown of Wild Olive

This book delves into the complexities of nature and the human struggle for power, intertwining elements of ancient myths and the natural world. more

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John Ruskin

John Ruskin was an influential British art critic, writer, and social critic. Known for his profound insights into art, architecture, and social issues, he had a significant impact on the aesthetics and culture of the Victorian era. more

“To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place', because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place - a feel for one's own position in the control room-is useful in gauging what you should try to do.”

Knows Feels Should Trying May Ideas Political Politics Rooms Position Ambition Boredom Good Ideas Mobility Sense Of Place

Author:William Safire

“The Republicans may be better off without an agenda. They don't scare people.”

People May Political Politics Republican Agendas Scare Better Off

Author:Bill Schneider

“That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?”

Ifs Firsts Might Political Politics Politician Murder Bones Tongue Ass Skulls Cain Knaves

Book:William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

“I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.”

Government Political Politics Chance Worry Careful

Author:George P. Shultz

“Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?”

World Want Two Building Bed Waste Bills Cooking Heavy Woods Meals Pairs Favour Jumping Rope Machinery Utility Lifting Ark Purchasing

Author:Sloane Crosley

“From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.”

Humans Has Beens Country Political Rights Historical Human Rights Compromise Civil War Abandoned

Book:The Works of Charles Sumner

Source: The Works of Charles Sumner

“Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.”

Should Truth Political Politics Worry Sea Newspapers Telling The Truth

Author:William Howard Taft

“Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.”

Firsts Political Politics Impulse Mistrust Total War

Author:Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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