"In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep."

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Source : "What Jack Valenti Taught Us All" by Matt Gerson, www.washingtonpost.com. April 28, 2007.

Jack Valenti

#Struggle Quotes #Political Quotes #Daggers Quotes

“There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.”
“Violence has never prospered, you can't remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!”
“I thought I had a type but I don't really have a type anymore. I just look for a girl who doesn't take herself too seriously.”
“The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.”
“Everybody changes, not just me.”

Source : "'He was a symbol': Eldridge Cleaver dies at 62". www.cnn.com. May 1, 1998.
“While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.”
“No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.”
“On the 1st of August, 1774, I endeavoured to extract air from mercurius calcinates per se [mercury oxide]; and I presently found that, by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. â€¦ I admitted water to it [the extracted air], and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprized me more than I can well express, was, that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably vigorous flameâ€¦ I was utterly at a loss how to account for it.”

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