"Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting."

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Source : "Evolving Democracy for the 21st Century" by Beth Simone Noveck, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.

Beth Simone Noveck

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“We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.”
“I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.”

Source : "Springboard: ‘Inherent Vice’ Breakout Katherine Waterston Is Still Having Her ‘Pinch Me’ Moment". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. November 07, 2014.
“The Savior taught His disciples, 'For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it' (Luke 9:24)."I believe the Savior is telling us that unless we lose ourselves in service to others, there is little purpose to our own lives. Those who live only for themselves eventually shrivel up and figuratively lose their lives, while those who lose themselves in service to others grow and flourishâ€”and in effect save their lives.”
“Where ever you are, be there totally.”
“Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that ruin which except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world.”
“I think that Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, all those states actually look pretty good for Hillary Clinton.”
“When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow we gave our today.”
“To my knowledge nobody - no one who is publishing papers in the main field of AI - is even working on consciousness. I think there are some neuroscientists who are trying to understand it, but I'm not aware that they've made any progress.”

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