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Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose. Al Gore
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The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial. Dick Morris
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To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim Thomas Paine
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned! Victor Hugo
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I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction. George Washington
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For her part, the Church always works for the integral development of every person. In this sense, she reiterates that the common good should not be simply an extra, simply a conceptual scheme of inferior quality tacked onto political programmes. The Church encourages those in power to be truly at the service of the common good of their peoples. Pope Francis
political dignity humans
All political activity must serve and promote the good of the human person and be based on respect for his or her dignity.
political mind progress
We cannot point to a single definitive solution of any one of the problems that confront us — political, economic, social or moral, that is, having to do with the conduct of life. We are still beginners, and for that reason may hope to improve. To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind. There is no need to be dismayed by the fact that we cannot yet envisage a definitive solution of our problems, a resting-place beyond which we need not try to go. Peter Medawar
political answers too-much
I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life. Peter Singer
way happiness-and-success just-being
The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can. Meryl Streep
way done yeast
A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast. Dennis Potter
way would-be music-is
Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way. Debby Ryan
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way achieve frustrating
We have to achieve what we can, and if we haven't yet learned that we are not always going to get our way this could be frustrating. Anne Northup
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Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of "redeeming everything that ever happens to them. Anne Rice
way made
It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around. Anita Ekberg
way bats wavering
At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats By the Ponte Vecchio . . . Changing guard. D. H. Lawrence
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Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least some of the new impressions of a foreign place, when its thrilling barrage can sometimes overwhelm you. Susan Minot