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  • Ben Nicholson 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.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Arthur Koestler Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Branford Marsalis Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • George Orwell Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Jean Genet Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Malcolm X Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Malcolm X Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • George Santayana Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu President Abbas, you've dedicated your life to advancing the Palestinian cause. Must this conflict continue for generations, or will we enable our children and our grandchildren to speak in years ahead of how we found a way to end it? That's what we should aim for, and that's what I believe we can achieve.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Henry Bolingbroke Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
    Henry Bolingbroke
    British politician (1678 - 1751)
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  • Piet Hein Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.
    Piet Hein
     
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  • Beth Ditto Products are a must - full stop. I'm sorry to say it, but that bob won't look so sleek on its own - you need a little help. It doesn't have to be the high-end stuff that they sell in the salon. Products you find in the supermarket are just as good, and sometimes better.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Wyndham Lewis Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Ben Shapiro Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Sir Thomas Malory Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.
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  • Jimmy Connors Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.
    Jimmy Connors
    American tennis player (1952 - )
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  • Colette Dowling Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death.
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  • Richard Dawkins Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Billy Bennett Remember what the Patriarch King Solomon
    Told his harem on the night they'd had a few:
    Teetotalum overcoatum asqua scutum atomack
    Sonata with tomoto, laringitis, cul de sac.
    Translation: If your rhubarb's fallen try and bend it back.
    That's a motto for the likes of me and you.
    Source: Mottoes line 41
    Billy Bennett
    British comedian
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  • Henry Miller Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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