Quotes with political-minded

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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller While no politician or political system can ever afford to yield understandably and enthusiastically to their adversaries and opposers, all politicians can and will yield enthusiastically to the computers safe flight-controlling capabilities in bringing all of humanity in for a happy landing.
    Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Andrew Johnson Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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  • Harold Rosenberg Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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  • Samuel Johnson Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Al Gore Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Eldridge Cleaver With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
    Target Zero: A Life in Writing (2015)
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Ben Carson You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Bob Geldof You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett You do not want to be in a creative organisation with everybody being like-minded and stroking each other's creative egos. You want differences of opinion... constructively.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Ben Affleck You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Arthur Scargill You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament.
    Arthur Scargill
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
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  • Billy Gardell You start realizing that maybe you're the one night a month that people have out, and they don't need to hear your political views or how dark you can get. They just want to laugh for an hour and go home. Once I wrapped my head around that, my act evolved accordingly.
    Billy Gardell
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1969 - )
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  • Curtis Carlson You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.
    Curtis Carlson
    American businessman and technologist (1945 - )
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  • Cal Thomas America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • E. F. Schumacher An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
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  • Ambrose Bierce Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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