"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."

-- Aristotle

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“Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.”
“People never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to admit that life was becoming ever poorer, bleaker and more monotonous. The ones who felt this most keenly were the children, because no one had time for them any more. But time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart. And the more people saved, the less they had.”
“The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm world within the cold and empty stellar distances will hardly balk at the turning of water into wine which was, after all, a very small miracle. We forget the greater and still continuing miracle by which water (with soil and sunlight) is turned into grapes.”
“Next time you want to quit, think who you want to be. Quitters never win.”
“There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.”

Source : "Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq". Book by Thomas E. Ricks, armedforcesjournal.com. July 2006.
“Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.”

Source : "John and Edward Rutledge of South Carolina". Book by James Haw, p. 269, 1997.
“The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.”
“There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.”

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