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Letter "E" » electing
«It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.»
«If you elect me the first Jewish justice of the peace, I'll reduce the speed limits to 54.95!»
Author: Kinky Friedman
(Novelist, Politician, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
elect, electing, elects, Jewish, justice, justice of the peace, limits, reduce, speed, speed limit
«Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.»
Author: Roger Ebert
(Critic, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
| Keywords:
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«Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.»
Author: Lily Tomlin
(Actress, Comedian)
| About:
Adulthood,
Advertising,
Politicians,
Politics
| Keywords:
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«Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
| About:
Failure,
Life
| Keywords:
becoming, combination, combinations, death, death wish, elect, electing, elects, fail, go through, kind, kind of, process, processed, processing, remain, state, States, This Is, This is a, wish
«The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since the world began and who intend to go on with it. They'll squeeze under the Revolution or leap over it when the time comes, don't you worry.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
close corporation, corporation, electing, good-for-nothing, humorous, intend, jolly, leap, oxford, squeeze, successors, the revolution, untidy, when the time comes
«Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities, and so on.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
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«The trouble about the Academie is that by the time they get around to electing us to a seat, we really need a bed.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
electing, get around to
«A fool and his money are soon elected.»
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