I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
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Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
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