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A wise man does not try to hurry history.

Adlai Stevenson I

Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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Carpe Diem Communist Lose Manifesto Uniting Yolk
Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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Anand Thakur
Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.
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Anand Thakur
Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
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Anand Thakur
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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Anand Thakur
They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
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Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
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Brave God Man Right Struggled
It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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Anand Thakur
A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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Century Civilization Man Party Save
The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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Anand Thakur
Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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Anand Thakur
There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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Brave Contended Dread Last Man Resort Tribunal Valor War
Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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