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I always had a kind of Myth of Cincinnatus idea about politics — that public service was something you do for a while in between stints at real life. And when your time is up, you return to the plow, which is hopefully still somewhere close to where you left it.

— Angus King Governor's Travels : How I Left Politics, Learned to Back Up a Bus, and Found America (2011)

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