True Grit

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“To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

“Politics is, as it were, the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its two opposite halves,—sometimes split into quarters, it may be, which grind on each other.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)