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They didn't want votes, either. A vote wasn't going to raise wages or make bread cheaper. What did it matter to them what Government was in power.

— Flora Thompson

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Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.

Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle.

Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above all a quiet mind.

We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.

It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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