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“What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.”
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“Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy sideThy every action let the goddess guide.”
Source : Phillis Wheatley, “His Excellency General Washington”
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“Cycling isn’t a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t play at cycling.”
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“All poetry is misrepresentation.”
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“After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.”
Source : Robert Hass, “Meditation At Lagunitas”
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“If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.”
Source : "Evel Knievel: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. November 30, 2007. 
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“One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.”
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“Wait for a miracle and it will never come. Take responsibility and you'll invite a miracle.”
