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I look for the consensus because the consensus drives the policy into new places. ↗

It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#argument #bosnia #depends #done #hand

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had. ↗

— Joe Biden

#authority #competent #election #had #how

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#doing #exactly #lay #oneself #places

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#authority #because #democracy #failure #hands

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#cities #city #cloud #continents #differences

In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#completely #condition #distribution #industrial #industrial organization

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#become #believing #churches #once #organizations

I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#clearing #first #going #haven #head

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#city #many #markets #other #places