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I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

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Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.

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To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.

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