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"For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them."
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"Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends."
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"Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results."
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"The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking"
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"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them."
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"Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal."
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"Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes."
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"When I visited the Water Institute's Baton Rouge offices overlooking the Mississippi River, I couldn't find a drop of the charged politics that drives so many environmental conversations in Washington."
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"You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father."
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"The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics."
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"All too often, the conversation about appropriate and balanced environmental stewardship gets caught up in partisan politics. Yet, this conversation is key to the preservation of our great country for generations to come, as important as ensuring we have fiscally responsible policies to secure our future."
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"With the mining sites, I found a subject matter that carried forth my fascination with the undoing of the landscape, in terms of both its formal beauty and its environmental politics."
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"I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition."
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"It's that evil twin part of me that always comes out at the absolute wrong political moment, like a demon possessing my soul; it exhibits itself as an arrogance or disdain or obnoxiousness or meanness or anger or pettiness - all traits that are lethal in politics."
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"When I first started, my songs were the politics of anger. As I got older and hopefully wiser, I wanted to be part of the politics of answers."
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"I've been in government and politics my entire career, and while I try to keep a level head and a reasonable tone in my commentary, even I can lose my head sometimes and let anger bubble over and burst out. It feels gross, looks ugly, and leaves a lasting mark."
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"The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia."
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"Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that women have often taken leading places - on the throne, in the battle-field, in politics, in literature, poetry, etc."
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"In politics you learn to always smile."
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"Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly."
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