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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
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Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.
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At Rome there were nothing even vaguely resembling modern political parties - although given the stifling impact of these, this may well have made it more rather than less democratic than many countries today - and each candidate for office competed as an individual. Only rarely did they advocate specific policies, although commenting on issues of current importance was more common. In the main voters looked more for a capable individual who once elected could do whatever the State required.
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I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.
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But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.
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It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.
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I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!
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[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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To educate girls is to reduce poverty
