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Of course there are different forms of conservatism. I would say just analytically that the Republican Party is more thoroughly conservative and the Democratic Party is more thoroughly liberal today than has been the case for most of modern history.

W. H. Auden

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

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Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

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We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

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All that we are not stares back at what we are.

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it - not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

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