"A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks."

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Source : "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 4, Socrates and After, p. 140, 1985.

Moses Finley

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“The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable youâ€™ll be.”

Source : Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books
“The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories â€” or you can use it to paint dreams.”
“There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone. If you are a true artist, you will have a very finely tuned moral mechanism.”
“I definitely don't want to play by myself. I don't relate to playing music that way. I like interacting with people.”

Source : "Avey Tare Talks New Solo Album, Animal Collective's Future, Crocodiles". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. August 19, 2010.
“When you lose, nobody likes it and you start turning on each other.”
“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”

Source : Stephen Chbosky (2012). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.159, Simon and Schuster
“If future history is not to be just one damned thing after another in space, then what we really have to do is in some way overcome this linear experience of time that makes all existence a quest for something that will never be found.And philosophies such as Zen seem to hint that this is possible.”
“One out of four kids in Lesotho has AIDS, and the idea of the charity is to help the children first fight the stigma of living with HIV and then teach them how to live with it and survive and get an education so all these children can have a normal life. When you're changing the life of so many kids - one out of four is a big number - you change the direction of an entire nation.”

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