"The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied."

-- Max Lerner

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“The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when full acknowledgment of it would undermine the foundations of his intellectual worldview.”
“Christianity in our country is a lot like what the Ducksters profess. No longer doctrinaire or demanding, the mishmash of pop-religion practiced in churches across America is an extension of the therapeutic culture: festooned with feelings, mostly misdirected. Untempered by intelligent interpretation of scripture... American pop-theology: light on doctrine, heavy on hellfire and damnation.”
“I mean, to me, freaking out is different. More of a running away, not telling anyone what's wrong, slowly simmering until you burst kind of thing.”
“Mitt Romney, you can criticize him for a lot of things, and that's fair, but he knows how the economy works.”

Source : "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien". www.cnn.com. September 7, 2012.
“Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another...”

Source : H. Rider Haggard (2015). “Allan Quatermain: Mystery & Adventure Story”, p.72, 谷月社
“If things do not change, there will be nothing left to change. Either power must pass to the people or everything will perish.”

Source : Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1994). “My Dearest Daughter: A Letter from the Death Cell”
“It took me six years to be comfortable modeling a swimsuit.”
“I appreciate very much being injury-free.”

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