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“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.”
Never Give In! • Winston S Churchill“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.”
East Of Eden • John Steinbeck“How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?”
Essays • Michel De Montaigne“This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.”
Travels with Charley: In Search of America • John Steinbeck“The exchange of one fear or pleasure or pain for another fear or pleasure or pain, which are measured like coins, the greater with the less, is not the exchange of virtue. O, my dear Simmias, is there not one true coin, for which all things ought to exchange?—and that is wisdom; and only in exchange for this, and in company with this, is anything truly bought or sold, whether courage or temperance or justice. ...in the true exchange, there is a purging away of all these things, and temperance, and justice, and courage, and wisdom herself are a purgation of them.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato