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Insight & Reflection

This reflection on politics by Aesop resonates across generations. It highlights a fundamental truth about human nature: our continuous search for meaning in politics is what ultimately defines our character and our path forward.

About Aesop

Aesop was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Although his existence remains unclear and no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Many of the tales associated with him are characterized by anthropomorphic animal characters.

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"Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."

— Aesop
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"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls."

— Aesop
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"Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either."

— Aesop
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"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."

— William Godwin
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"Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war."

— Thor Heyerdahl
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"Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way."

— George Saunders
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"You would think that a country that goes to war allegedly to spread democracy would practice it in its own country."

— Mumia Abu-Jamal
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