"The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy."

-- Aristotle

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“It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.”

Source : Attributed to Emil Zatopek in "Citius, Altius, Fortius" ("Swifter, Higher, Stronger"), an unsigned article from Khaleej Times, August 8, 2008.
“Your life is a learning process - you can only become wiser from learning. Sometimes you might have to attract making a painful mistake to learn something important, but after the mistake you have far greater wisdom. Wisdom cannot be bought with money - it can only be acquired through living life. With wisdom comes strength, courage, knowing, and an ever-increasing peace.”
“The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper.”
“I had a test on my kidneys a few weeks back and found out I have two.”
“â€¦â€œwhite supremacyâ€ is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force (i.e slavery, apartheid) than the term â€œinternalized racismâ€- a term most often used to suggest that black people have absorbed negative feelings and attitudes about blackness. The term â€œwhite supremacyâ€ enables us to recognize not only that black people are socialized to embody the values and attitudes of white supremacy, but we can exercise â€œwhite supremacist controlâ€ over other black people.”
“The soul has words as petals.”

Source : Edmond Jabes, Edmond Jabès, Rosmarie Waldrop (1991). “The Book of Questions: Volume I [The Book of Questions, The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book]”, p.61, Wesleyan University Press
“If I see a movie star in the department store buying something, I'll kind of sidle up and see what they're saying, what they look like, how they sound. That's an invasion of privacy.”
“My life is a blunt to the head, a prayer for the dead, Run around hustlin...scared of the feds. They said death is eternal sleep, But the only thing is you ain't really sure if you prepared for the bed.”

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