"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."

Bastiat, Frederic on government
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"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so."

Gandhi, Mahatma on law and lawyers
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"Justice is truth in action."

Disraeli, Benjamin on justice
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"Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity."

Acton, Lord on secrets
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"To go too far is as bad as to fall short."

Confucius on excess
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"Study the past if you would divine the future."

Confucius on past
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"When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant."

Confucius on scholars and scholarship
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"I am a part of everything that I have read."

Kieran, John on books - reading
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"A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there -- that of the pulse, the heart beat."

Miller, Henry on books - reading
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"You all laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same. "

Devis John on different   

"Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told."

Barry, Dave on democracy   

"Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism."

Forster, Edward M. on democracy   

"Democracy without morality is impossible."

Kemp, Jack on democracy   

"There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship."

Nader, Ralph on democracy   

"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."

Niebuhr, Reinhold on democracy   

"Let the people think they govern and they will be governed."

Penn, William on democracy   

"Freedom without obligation is anarchy. Freedom without obligation is democracy."

Riney, Earl on democracy   

"All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy."

Smith, Alfred E. on democracy   

"I believe in democracy, because it releases the energies of every human being."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on democracy   

"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on democracy   

"Desire creates the power."

Holliwell, Raymond on desire
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"To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires."

Lowell, James Russell on desire
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"Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."

Ruskin, John on desire   

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"All human activity is prompted by desire."

Russell, Bertrand on desire   

"Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire."

Unser, Bobby on desire
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"The smallest faith can have the biggest difference."

inderjeet rajpal on differance   

"Education is the best provision for old age."

Aristotle on education
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"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs."

Wolfe, Thomas on culture   

"In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined."

Szasz, Thomas on definition   

"Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit."

Nehru, Jawaharlal on culture   

"I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history."

Oerter, Al on competition   

"We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!"

Kennedy, John F. on competition   

"Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity."

Burrus, Daniel on competition   

"Chaos is the score upon which reality is written."

Miller, Henry on chaos
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"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."

Jung, Carl on chaos
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"Books had instant replay long before televised sports."

Williams, Bert on books - reading
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"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."

West, Jessamyn on books - reading   

"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return."

Rushdie, Salman on books - reading   

"Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem."

Aldiss, Brian on creativity
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"It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life."

Caesar, Julius on creativity
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