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The magic of the American experience is that we've upheld the rule of law for everybody, everybody treated equally beneath the law.
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
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I'm one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in.


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The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.


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All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.


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When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.


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In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.
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On the flight over to the Gulf of Mexico, I wondered about how they say you can never go home again, but maybe an equally expensive reality is how many people, regardless of how many years or miles they put between themselves and where they were born, are never truly able to leave home.
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Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say 'no.' But saying 'yes' begins things. Saying 'yes' is how things grow.
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Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.


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I refuse to bring my son up in a world corrupt as it is now.


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Everybody in this race is against Obama, okay? So saying you're against Obama, against Obamacare, all the rest, it's all fine, well and good, except it doesn't move you forward.
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