"It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions."

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Source : Charles Edward Merriam (1945). “Systematic Politics”

Charles Edward Merriam

#Drama Quotes #Political Quotes #Special Quotes

“Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.”
“In the current climate motorists have a long list of issues from which to choose to raise on the doorstep. Policies aimed at reducing emissions - like the changes to Vehicle Excise Duty or here in Manchester the proposals for congestion charges - are not without controversy.”
“America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.”
“Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.”
“I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada.”
“Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.”
“The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.”
“One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.”

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