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Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.
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Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
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Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
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Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
Plays wasted words, proves to warn
That he not busy being born is busy dying.Source: Bringing It All Back Home (1965) -
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
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Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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Politicians - in both political parties - spend too much money. And they forget to focus on what matters most: fixing the economic mess they created and putting people back to work.
― Brad Wenstrup
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
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Politicians and bureaucrats are the new upper class in Norway. It is an upper class that is growing by an increasing number of top-paid politicians in municipalities and counties. They let the people suffer, but let themselves go free.
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Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Source: As quoted in Synergetics Dictionary : The Mind of Buckminster Fuller (1986)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build A bridge even where there is no river.
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Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
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Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.
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