"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time."

-- E. B. White

#Freedom Quotes #People Quotes #Political Quotes

“Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Dec 20, 2010
“What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of 'consolation' or of boredom when we pray. A clear understanding that the value of our prayer does not depend upon how we feel is extremely important if we are to persevere in prayer. So many people feel that if their prayer is distracted it cannot be pleasing to God, and are therefore led to abandon their efforts precisely when fidelity is of the most importance.”
“So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.”
“There's 7 billion, 46 million people on the planet”

Source : Song: Tiny Glowing Screens, Part 2, Album: Cardboard Castles, 2013
“As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad.”
“There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.”

Source : Margot Asquith (1920). “The Autobiography of Margot Asquith”
“The United States has to have the capability to deal with more than one enemy at one time and be able to confront them and win.”
“I think the reporter or journalist is well served by having a responsibility to the powerless, to use a much-abused clichÃ©. The voice of the powerless is in some danger of not being heard in the elite discourses we now have in the mainstream media.”

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