"The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint, a sane and clear recognition of the practical and attainable, and of the fact that there are laws of nature which are beyond our power to change."

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Source : Otto Hermann Kahn (1918). “Frenzied Liberty: The Myth of "a Rich Man's War"”

Otto Hermann Kahn

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“His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.”
“Buffett’s genius was largely a genius of character—of patience, discipline, and rationality.”

Source : Roger Lowenstein (2013). “Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist”, p.13, Random House
“The sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is the result of what police call "noble cause corruption," the belief that because you are dedicated to doing good, you can do no wrong.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“I have had almost every job under the sun, it feels like. One of the first jobs I took was as a door-to-door pest control salesman in Raleigh, North Carolina.”
“From the animist point of view, humans belong in a sacred place because they themselves are sacred. Not sacred in a special way, not more sacred than anything else, but merely as sacred as anything else -- as sacred as bison or salmon or crows or crickets or bears or sunflowers.”
“If I can't have a revolution, what is there to dance about.”
“All babies look like RenÃ©e Zellweger pushed against a glass window.”
“With self-discipline most anything is possible.”

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