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Politics at University of York

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: social
University website: www.york.ac.uk

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Politics (from Greek: πολιτικά, translit. Politiká, meaning "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions that apply to members of a group.
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All political power is a trust.
Charles James Fox (1788).
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Money and generous benefits can easily alter a person’s political outlook. Ideology follows the money.
L.K. Samuels, In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, Cobden Press (2013) p. 301.
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... for our English grumbling is equally distributed between the weather and politics, and the case would be desperate when confined to the last.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality (1831), Vol. I, Chapter 18.
To EU-funded Earth scientists, it is evident that many parts of the Earth's crust have been extracted from the underlying mantle. However, the timing of new crust formation and recycling of old crust has proven to be an elusive issue.
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