Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so almost

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

War remains the decisive human failure.

War remains the decisive human failure.

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    You can fool some people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.

    Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

    Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

    Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.

    Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.

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