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“The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.”

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Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

“Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual grows rapidly and luxuriantly. Name anything bad in man and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with particular liveliness and abundance.”

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Author:Maxim Gorky

“The point is to make the pie grow faster and distribute the new growth more equitably.”

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Author:Louis O. Kelso

“I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation that anyone's child, even from the humblest of families, could grow up to own a business or corporation.”

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Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.”

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Author:Caspar Weinberger

“An election marks the end of the affair; it puts paid to the seduction of the many by the few. Pretty words, fulsome promises. We wind up married, but to whom, to what? We cannot always predict with certainty the future leader from the winning candidate. Some men grow in the job; others are diminished by its demands and its grandeur.”

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Author:Anna Quindlen

“When it comes to the budget, we know that we shouldn't be cutting more on core investments, like education, that are going to help us grow in the future. And we've already seen the deficit cut in half. It's going down faster than any time in the last 60 years. So why would we make more cuts in education, more cuts in basic research? Nobody thinks that's a good idea.”

“Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.”

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Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.”

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Book:Works

Source: Works

“Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.”

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Author:Jackie Kennedy

“Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.”

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Book:The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy

Source: The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.”

“The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.”

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Author:Michael Moore