"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own."
-Aesop
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"Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency."
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"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth."
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"Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either."
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"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."
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"The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted."
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"The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other."
-H. Rap Brown
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"On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity."
-Mark Udall
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"The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something."
-Eric Sevareid
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"We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal."
-Richard Dreyfuss
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"First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot."
-George Crook
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"Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one."
-Gary Ackerman
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