"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."
-Paul Valery
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"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.“
-Paul Valery
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"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other."
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"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be."
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"History is the science of things which are not repeated."
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"Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature."
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"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us."
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"Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one."
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