"A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty."

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Russell Kirk

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“I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century could say without exaggeration, "Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years." Asked how he had done all this in the six or seven years of his working life, Abel replied, "By studying the masters, not the pupils."”

Source : Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”
“If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.”
“I suffer the anthropological malady diagnosed by Le vi- Strauss inTristes tropiques: I find it much more difficult to suspend value judgments about the society in which I normally reside than I do abroad. It takes physical and cultural distance to gain moral detachment and political noncommitment. Relativism implies a solid measure of indifference.”
“I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.”
“I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.”

Source : Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.148
“There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.”

Source : "Fictional character: Edmond Dantes". "The Count of Monte Cristo", January 23, 2002.
“I joined NOW on an issue of pay.”

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