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This article is amazing! 🙌

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Thank you Toby, that's really appreciated.

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"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."

Care to guess who said that?

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Kissinger?

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CLOSE!! But no cigar. Try again?

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OK, must be Machiavelli...?

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Well, I thought it was Groucho Marx, but apparently he stole it from Ernest Benn!

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ok, that makes sense :)

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Benn left out the best part!

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." AND wasting enormous quantities of cash in the process!

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When I think about the money involved, I have to ask myself how much it would take for me to look the other way, or advocate, for these clot shots. I wish I could say that there's no amount of money, but being a human . . .

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I understand that train of thought, but is situation dependent, because it would have to override my conscience.

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Yes, dear. All tobacco is toasted..

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Excellent analogy! I've spent time in Queensland and the toads are truly a horror show.

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Interfering and trying to outsmart nature is always doomed to fail!

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