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Murray Kempton Quotes
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Murray Kempton
American
Journalist
Born:
Dec 16
,
1917
Died:
May 5
,
1997
Been
Get
Government
Great
Man
You
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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
Murray Kempton
Faith
Nature
You
Political
Human Nature
Come
Trace
Any
Human
Where
Convention
Place
Away
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
Murray Kempton
Great
Scoundrel
Uninteresting
Ever
The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.
Murray Kempton
Best
Commitment
Strong
Men
Beauty
Lasting
Understood
Often
Incapable
We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.
Murray Kempton
Government
Man
Down
Find
Some
Laws
Hack
Up
Any
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
Murray Kempton
Government
Invent
Own
Philosophies
Demands
Convenience
Explain
Function
A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.
Murray Kempton
You
Neighborhood
Out
Beat
Go
Up
Get
Where
The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.
Murray Kempton
Me
Game
People
Lost
Faces
Remind
New
York
New York
Who
Played
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