“ Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
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“ We'd all like t' vote fer th' best man, but he's never a candidate. ”
- Kin Hubbard- Copy
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“ The drawback in voting for the man of your choice is that he is seldom a candidate. ”
- Evan Esar- Copy
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“ While the ACLU understands that candidates will have a more difficult time reaching dislocated voters, the privacy rights of those individuals far outweigh the narrower interests of office seekers. ”
- Joe Cook- Copy
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“ These evils I deserve, and more.... Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Various types of sacrifice, charity, and austerity are performed by the seekers of nirvana by uttering 'TAT' without seeking a reward. ”
- Bhagavad Gita- Copy
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“ We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. ”
- R. Buckminster Fuller- Copy
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“ The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck. ”
- Bob Goodlatte- Copy
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“ If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. ”
- Rene Descartes- Copy
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“ As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. ”
- Robert Byrne- Copy
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“ Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. ”
- Mark B. Cohen- Copy
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“ It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. ”
- Eugene McCarthy- Copy
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“ If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates. ”
- Howard Zinn- Copy
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“ The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure. ”
- Hermann Hesse- Copy
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“ I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate. ”
- Dylan Moran- Copy
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“ It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him. ”
- Max Planck- Copy
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“ We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate. ”
- Kin Hubbard- Copy
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“ With 500 channels and the Internet available, you'd think a candidate could get the word out. ”
- Larry King- Copy
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“ A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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“ In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
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“ The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street. ”
- Kin Hubbard- Copy
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“ Simply being with other people who are also seekers and who are involved in the same quest you are is very meaningful. ”
- Dan Wakefield- Copy
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