"Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself."

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Ibn Khaldun

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“So I'd rather have a defense that's successful where everyone's comfortable in their positions.”
“What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.”

Source : Sharon Creech (2009). “Walk Two Moons”, p.14, Harper Collins
“One changed child eventually changes a family. A changed family will influence change in its church. Enough changed churches will transform a community. Changed communities change regions. Changed regions will in time change an entire nation.”
“I had a wonderful holiday, a wonderful New Year and it was very special. That's all you're getting out of me.”
“Listen carefully, be transparent, be responsive, be authentic, tell great stories-the qualities that would make you the hotshot at a party-and they'll make your organization a likeable one on social networks.”

Source : Dave Kerpen (2011). “Likeable Social Media: How to Delight Your Customers, Create an Irresistible Brand, and Be Generally Amazing on Facebook (& Other Social Networks)”, p.7, McGraw Hill Professional
“Caleb runs up to me and folds me carefully in his arms. I breathe a sigh of relief. I thought I had gotten to the point where I didnâ€™t need my brother anymore, but I donâ€™t think such a point actually exists.”
“Thoughts for Young Men abounds in reliable counsel and says - with a rare combination of seriousness and graciousness - the very things we need to hear. Young men, for whom it was written, will find it invaluable; but all Christians, men or women, young or old, can read it with lasting benefit. It deserves to be widely read and circulated, and will do spiritual good to every reader.”
“A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt as a symbol of the timeless libertarian paradox: Monopoly verging on feudalism emerges from unregulated competition to bite libertarianism in the posterior.”

Source : "The God of the Digerati". Essay in the American Prospect Magazine, prospect.org. March-April 1998.

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