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If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

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It is only when he speaks German, as now, that he allows himself to lament the enslavement of the world's downtrodden classes. "We cannot live in a bu...more

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By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

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She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work, it's life.

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I would say that since the war, our methods-out and those of the opposition-have become much the same. I mean you can't be less ruthless than the oppo...more