Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
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As quoted in a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation tribute (1972), and in Chambers Dictionary of Political Biography? (1991) by John Ransley, p. 345Lester B. Pearson
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What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that, practically, I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all. The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but, as I love literature, and, to some extent, the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.
Henry David Thoreau
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
A skilled soldier kills your enemies, but a skilled duelist kills your allies.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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