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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. ↗

— Plato

#being #end #governed #inferiors #participate

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed. ↗

— Plato

#little #much #penalty #speed #suffer

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do. ↗

— John Podhoretz

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I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#been #done #enacted #even #heard

Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#committed #crime #growing #haven #increasingly

The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods. ↗

— Cecil Frank Powell

#detecting #enabled #escaped #establish #existence

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery. ↗

— Colin Powell

#about #argued #congress #court #deal

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#bringing #capable #causing #children #considerably

Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race. ↗

— David Prowse

#honest #i #menace #much #perfectly

As a Democrat in this Senate, I felt aggrieved by some things the other side has done. I have no doubt they feel aggrieved about some of the things we have done. ↗

— Mark Pryor

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