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“A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.”
Source : Earl Warren (1972). “A Republic, If You Can Keep It. -”
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“Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.”
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“May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.”
Source : Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Elliott Coues (1987). “The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike”, Dover Pubns
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“If we have to know without a doubt that the choices we are making are the perfect ones, we risk never making any choices at all.”
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“And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless in my current state, completely dependent on her? Or is it my sense of humour, my willingness to tease her, to joke my way into painful, secret places? Do I help her understand herself? Do I make her happy? Do I do something for her that her husband and son can't do? Has she fallen in love with me? As the days pass and I continue to heal, my body knitting itself back together, I begin to allow myself to think that she has.”
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“The question shouldn't be “Why are you, a Christian, here in a death camp, condemned for trying to save Jews?' The real question is “Why aren't all the Christians here?”
Source : Joel C. Rosenberg (2014). “The Auschwitz Escape”, p.262, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
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“I take a lot of inspiration from the nature of the universe and visualize my work as a direct or indirect reflection of life, inside and around us.”
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“I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films.”
