Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

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If you vote against someone else because you don't like their policies or just because you hate them, then you're still voting for them.

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3. Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten. - Oliver Hassencamp

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4. What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree. - John Brunner

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More Quotes By Franklin P. Adams

1. Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

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2. The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.

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3. Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

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4. You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

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5. Then here's to the City of Boston The town of the cries and the groans Where the Cabots can't see the Kabotschniks And the Lowells won't speak to the Cohns.

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