"Men still have to be governed by deception."

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Georg C. Lichtenberg

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“No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them, democracy is perfectible.”
“I've had experiences where people say, 'I hated jazz before I heard you guys!"I'm like, 'You didn't hate jazz before you heard us, you hated the idea of jazz.'"”

Source : "A New Standard: Kamasi Washington's Modern Jazz Revolution". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. June 9, 2015.
“When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.”
“Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful.”
“I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling”
“If everything is mission, nothing is mission.”
“A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.”

Source : Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”
“I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.”

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