"Without democracy freedom is a chimera"

-- Octavio Paz

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“It is a high honour to be elected Prime Minister of Australia.”
“[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!”
“There is no difference in principle, ... between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American welfare state and regulated economy.”
“Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.”
“Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.”

Source : "The philosophy of Francis Bacon: An address delivered at Cambridge on the occasion of the Bacon tercentenary". Book by C. D. Broad, p. 67, October 5, 1926.
“Always keep in mind that if God didn't want a man to have mulligans, golf balls wouldn't come three to a sleeve.”
“The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work.”
“I love photographing. I love the experience of being around all the things that surround you when you go out to do work.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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