"The point about democracy is not that it delivers legitimate, effective, prosperous rule of law. It's not that it guarantees peace with itself or with its neighbors. ... Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality."

-- Rory Stewart

#Motivation Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Law Quotes

“Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis ...”
“I take my work very seriously, and that's the only way for it to be fun for me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I vowed to never, ever talk or reason like an adult.”
“In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them.”
“It seems to me self-evident that it is worthwhile to understand the best thoughts of the past, to appropriate them, to criticize them.”
“If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities.”
“I am infected with your stupidity.”
“The providence of God is subordinate to creation; and it is, therefore, necessary that it should not impinge against creation, which it would do, were it to inhibit or hinder the use of free will in man. . .”

Source : Jacobus Arminius (1853). “The Works of James Arminius, D. D., Formerly Professor of Divinity in the University of Leyden”, p.488

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