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“
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy".
Ernest Benn
— Ernest Benn

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Widely attributed to Groucho Marx (and to Ernest Benn); original source unclear.

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