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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Frank Moore Colby

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Die Politik ist ein Ort mit bescheidenen Hoffnungen und seltsam bescheidenen Anforderungen, wo alle gut sind, die nicht kriminell sind, und alle klug sind, die nicht lächerlich anders sind.

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