People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.
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Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.
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Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.
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Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.
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Don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for.
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