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All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

— Enoch Powell Joseph Chamberlain (1977)

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Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.

The analytical faculty is underdeveloped in women.

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