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Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government.


James Bovard

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JAMES C. DOBSON Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant h...
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FRIEDRICH AUGUST HAYEK Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th...
THE CREE PEOPLE What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and J...
ESTHER DYSON I think the American people deserve to have the issues debated, regardless of which side they're...
DAN COATS Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant h...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK God has ordained that Satan have a long leash with God holding on to the leash because he knows that...
JOHN PIPER You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
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CRAIG KEENEY Now they have a riddle.

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KESHA A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
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NOAM CHOMSKY This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
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MEREDITH WILD Just give me one night, Vanessa. One night, and I won’t let you regret it.
MEREDITH WILD We live on the leash of our senses.
DIANE ACKERMAN Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant h...
FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK The present moment is always the most important. The present moment is the only one.
MARTY RUBIN The present moment is always the most important.
MARTY RUBIN My dear fellow, the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful. It is almost as disgracef...
OSCAR WILDE Leftists wage the war on Christmas using their traditional methods - government fiat and the court s...
MILO YIANNOPOULOS Well, I'm more lopsided than a one legged badger," mewed Graypaw, breaking off from his carful stalk...
ERIN HUNTER No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with whi...
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JON KRAKAUER The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves...
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HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
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CORY DOCTOROW One of the things that saddens me in the voting process is the low turnout. One thing we have lost i...
LAURA WRIGHT The government had an obligation to tell and inform all EU citizens of our voting rights. They didn'...
DAVID BALL We'll have early voting, of course, before that, beginning on the 12th of April through the 27th, to...
ANN BEARD The Chinese government has a very full, clear understanding on the importance of containing the pand...
XAVIER BERTRAND Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.
ROBERT FROST My rather arrogant attitude deludes me into believing that my ability to understand something is the...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Life is short, and that's why, I don't test people; because we all fail tests sometimes, but that is...
C. JOYBELL C. The present government, it seems to me, is thinking that without America nothing can be done. What N...
JYOTI BASU I happened to see a bit of the trend on voting and it showed we have a well-informed voting academy.
MARK POPE The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
DANIEL WEBSTER Having unthoughtful thoughts for me is unthinkable, so much so that I cannot even think about that.
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Sorely in need of a tight editorial leash, (Miller) was kept on no leash at all, and that has hurt t...
MAUREEN DOWD Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretche...
EMMA LAZARUS I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
ROBERT FROST The combination of the good people that surround him, with the experience that James Packer's had, m...
CRAIG SHEPHERD Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, incl...
MARTY MEEHAN If the United States government is not serving the interests of the people, then it is because the p...
DWIGHT W. HAYES My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.
ALEX O'LOUGHLIN It is a complete waste of time and money. It is just going to mislead people into thinking they can ...
LUKE LIROT We have irresponsible people in the government, people who shouldn't be part of it. Berlusconi is to...
MASSIMO D'ALEMA No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a ...
SAMUEL FREEMAN MILLER Whether voting Republican or Democrat, the result is the same: A corrupt corporate government.
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AL RIES The Chinese government attaches importance to, and protects, human rights. We have incorporated thes...
WEN JIABAO We are winning the elections, ... I hear that people are voting in their masses. Whites are also vot...
ROBERT MUGABE I don't think this is anything against Congressman Kolbe. They, (the gay Republicans -- including me...
CHUCK ANDERSON The government will be put in the dock in Parliament if it insists on voting for a referral to the S...
PRAKASH KARAT Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
ROBERT FROST Take charge of your thoughts; for either it's slaying you or serving you
BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE I have learnt that they want to test the feeling of the people on the Wako Draft and pass the same m...
WILLIAM RUTO People who don’t construe their life and don’t frame their own tale, stay on the sidelines, rema...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up...
OSCAR WILDE Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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JAMES BAY I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly.
JAMES PUREFOY No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruct...
JAMES LARKIN I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singula...
JAMES THURBER Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the broth...
JAMES SALTER Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.
JAMES MONTGOMERY Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and br...
JAMES SUROWIECKI Undisclosed and illegal payments, kickbacks, and bribes became a way of doing business at FIFA.
JAMES COMEY But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, ...
JAMES THURBER All are equal
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Sceptre and crown
Must tumble down,
And...
JAMES SHIRLEY Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating t...
JAMES THURBER Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both...
JAMES THURBER When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow...
JAMES THURBER I am against bigness and greatness in all their forms, and with the invisible molecular moral forces...
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