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What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. if it results from anything, it must be levity.
-Tom Robbins
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What Is Politics, After All, But The

Tom Robbins
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. if it results from anything, it must be levity.
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