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"I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected."
"Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death."
"Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it."
"Whenever the investor sold out in an upswing as soon as the top level of the previous well-recognized bull market was reached, he had a chance in the next bear market to buy back at one third (or better) below his selling price."
"The Nazi signs have got to stop. If you're in a peace march and the guy next to you has a sign saying that 'Bush is Hitler,' forget the peace thing for a second and beat his ass, because he is not Hitler."
"Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius."
"Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves...After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do."
"Each experience in your lifewas absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment."
"In seats where perhaps we don't expect to win at the next general election, the new infrastructure gives us a chance to win local council seats and to build a campaigning base which could help us to win in the future."
"Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person."
"Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came."
"Next to meditation is music, soulful music, the music that stirs and elevates our aspiring consciousness."
"I think the next century will be the century of complexity."
"Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole thing."
"God is to be worshiped as the one Beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life."
"If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further."
"When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner."
"Losing the Super Bowl is worse than death. You have to get up the next morning."
"I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time."
"My view of life is, that it's next to impossible to convince anybody of anything."
