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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
 Groucho Marx

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.
 Groucho Marx
My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.
 Groucho Marx
[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.
 Groucho Marx
I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when you came along.
 Groucho Marx
I've met a lot of pin-up girls, but I've never been able to pin one down
 Groucho Marx