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If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

— Samuel Langhorne Clemens

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  2. All you have to fear is your mother's cooking.
  3. In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.
  4. When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excus…
  5. Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
  6. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
  7. I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
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  • politics
  • activism
  • civic
  • democracy
  • political cynicism
  • voting power

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