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		Is this politics? I suppose I am going to have to learn all about it, if I am to run Lord Ferris's household, and throw parties and all. Now...explain to me again just who hates who, and why?
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ellen Kushner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				P. J. O'Rourke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel Weisz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ralph Nader 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vera Brittain 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Aaron Schock 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zaha Hadid 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
		
	
	
	
	
		So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Taiye Selasi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rene Descartes 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Fashions fade, style is eternal. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yves Saint Laurent 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bill Gates 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Is this politics? I suppose I am going to have to learn all about it, if I am to run Lord Ferris's household, and throw parties and all. Now...explain to me again just who hates who, and why? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ellen Kushner