"I think that it’s premature to call Libya a democracy because political order is still so fragile there and the command by the state over the means of violence is still so inadequate that I think state building remains a major challenge. And until the militias can be reined in and the authority of the democratically-elected state can really be firmly established, there’s still tremendous fragility and vulnerability in the unfolding story in Libya."

-- Larry Diamond

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Order Quotes

“If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.”
“Some is not a number. Soon is not a time.”

Source : Donald M. Berwick (2013). “Promising Care: How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It”, p.47, John Wiley & Sons
“Let the young rain of tears come, let the calm hands of grief come. It's not all as evil as you think.”

Source : Rolf Jacobsen (2001). “The Roads Have Come to an End Now: Selected and Last Poems of Rolf Jacobsen”, p.17, Copper Canyon Press
“Elvis Presley is my spiritual father, and as you may know Maria Callas is my spiritual mother.”
“The research carried out in the area of language technology is of utmost importance for the consolidation of Portuguese as a language of global communication in the information society.”
“I should start charging uncomfortable thoughts rent. Except what would they pay me in? Probably something even worse.”
“It seems to me that most people are impressed with just three things: how fast you can play, how high you can play, and how loud you can play.”
“In meditation and/or intense life interfaces, our personal view is often superseded by Self's, causing our apparent reality and all of it's limitations to disappear.”

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