"All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people."
-James A. Garfield
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"If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.“
-James A. Garfield
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"Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality."
-James A. Garfield
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"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."
-James A. Garfield
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"The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people."
-James A. Garfield
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"He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation."
-James A. Garfield
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"Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it."
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"One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up."
-Jeff Goodell
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"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall."
-Charles Babbage
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"Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently."
-Jeff Goodell
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"A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power."
-Charles Babbage
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"The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power."
-Jeff Goodell
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"We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit."
-Jonathan Safran Foer
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