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“The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party.”
Source : Lincoln Chafee's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.politico.com. September 5, 2012. 
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“Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.”
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“I want a military funeral when I die—the bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It will be a way of achieving what I've always wanted more than anything—something I could have had, if only I'd managed to get myself killed in the war.... The unqualified approval of my community.”
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“All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.”
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“This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.”
Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.37, Jazzybee Verlag
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“I love clothes and I love fashion.”
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“You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.”
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“The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority.”
Source : "Patriotic Gore" by Brian Doherty, reason.com. January 18, 2006.
