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It is not an overstatement to say that the destiny of the entire human race depends on what is going on in America today. This is a staggering reality to the rest of the world; they must feel like passengers in a supersonic jetliner who are forced to watch helplessly while a passel of drunks, hypes, freaks, and madmen fight for the controls and the pilot's seat. — Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, 1968 .Mark Kurlansky
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You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets.Aristophanes
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In proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great.Barbara W. Tuchman
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It's an election year. We would prefer that voters didn't use common sense.Aaron Sorkin
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Hate obscures all distinctions.C.s. Lewis
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It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.Ron Suskind