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courage
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faith
friends
god
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humans
latin
learn
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miscellaneous
mistakes
nature
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reality
religion
science
sex
time
universe
politics


other
A Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan
If - Rudyard Kipling
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
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Quotes About Democracy

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.
Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
Mencius

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
Confucius

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Confucius

Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity...
Blaise Pascal