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• Don't vote - it only encourages them!
• The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villanous, licentious, abominable, infernal-- Not that I ever read them!
  No, I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper....
• I don't vote. It just encourages them. -- A Maine woma
• Bad waltzers are grasping at Strauss.
• The Soviet Union never had gridlock, and look what it got them.
• A lake on the mountain: The image of Influence. Thus the superior man encourages people to approach him By his readiness to receive them.
• Water over wood: the image of The Well. Thus the superior man encourages the people at their work, And exhorts them to help one another.
• Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them.
  There are deep wells of strength that are never used. Richard E. Byrd...
• The only programs a grown-up can possibly stand are those that cater to those pre-adolescent fantasies that most have never abandoned.
  -- Richard Schickel...