"Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right."

-- William Allen White

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“A Christian might drink only ginger ale at the tavern bar, but there he is already on the way to drinking beer and whiskey. The girl who attends a ball but never dances a step, will soon surrender her body to the lustful embrace of every casual male acquaintance as other dancers do.”
“You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...My family's habit of living in the past seems to me pathological, even dangerous. If all greatness lies in the past, what is the point of the future?”

Source : "The Emperor of Ocean Park". Book by Stephen L. Carter, 2002.
“We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.”
“In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home, and because she is a woman, she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.”
“Show me a person who doesn't like french fries and we'll swap lies.”
“Fool me once, shame on â€” shame on you. Fool me â€” you can't get fooled again.”
“But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair.”

Source : Jeffrey Steingarten (2011). “The Man Who Ate Everything”, p.5, Vintage
“Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.”

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