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“It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.”
Source : Charles Edward Merriam (1945). “Systematic Politics”
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“You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.”
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“I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.”
Source : "Ronnie". Book by Ronnie Drew, September 3, 2009.
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“Religion is no more national than conscience.”
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“The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience.”
Source : "Neil Cross: 'I don't get on with novelists'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2011.
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“Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by ***** tyrants to make us bondsmen.”
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“It was really like waking up one morning and going, Wow, I enjoy being with this person more than anybody else in my life, and it just turned out to be mutual.”
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“My two great loves are music and horses.”
Source : Interview with Evan Smith, www.texasmonthly.com. September, 2006.