"The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction"

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Aristotle

#Distraction Quotes #States Quotes #Factions Quotes

“On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second.”
“Kirby played every day. You feed off of that. When you think of Kirby, you think of motivation. Im definitely going to dedicate this year to him.”
“I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.”
“I'm just a tough old woman.”
“If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants”

Source : Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.84, Penguin
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

Source : The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Fit the Fifth" (radio program) (1978)
“When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.”
“Which are you first, a Jew or an American? A Jew.”

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