"It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according to the tempers of their lords, but democratic states according to established laws."

-- Aeschines

#Government Quotes #Law Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.”

Source : William Lilly, Elias Ashmole (1822). “William Lilly's history of his life and times from the year 1602 to 1681”, p.78
“Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start stealing!”
“The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.”
“Sell the benefit, not your company or the product. People buy results, not features.”
“What I'm doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions.”
“It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible.”
“What's the ultimate price I'll pay if I don't stop this indulgence now? By asking questions like this, they'll associate pain to overeating, and their behavior will change immediately.”
“One of the things, universally, that psychologists found with hijackers in the early '70s was that they all struggled with women.”

Source : "Will Don Draper Become D.B. Cooper? A Skyjacking Expert Weighs In". Interview with Julia Turner, www.slate.com. April 16, 2014.

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