"Parliamentary government is simply a mild and disguised form of compulsion. We agree to try strength by counting heads instead of breaking heads, but the principle is exactly the same... The minority gives way not because it is convinced that it is wrong, but because it is convinced that it is a minority."

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Source : James Fitzjames Stephen (1991). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: And Three Brief Essays”, p.70, University of Chicago Press

James Fitzjames Stephen

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“Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught.”

Source : Christopher Pearse Cranch (1844). “Poems”, p.51
“I'm not letting any 17 year old beat me tonight”
“Life is too short to do mediocre work and it is definitely too short to build shitty things.”
“In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all, and in and by all creatures, even in herbs and grass it knew God, who he is, and how he is, and what his will is: And suddenly in that light my will was set on by a mighty impulse, to describe the being of God.”

Source : Basarab Nicolescu, Jakob Böhme (1991). “Science, Meaning, & Evolution: The Cosmology of Jacob Boehme”
“My ambition is peace and perfection.”
“But once I saw Fulvia Cardew crumple up a sheet of paper with just a couple of words written on it and you wouldâ€™ve thought sheâ€™d murdered someone from the looks she got.”
“I hope that China will continue with space exploration. It would be logical to have international co-operation. I hope that it will come about and that I can be involved in it.”
“Develop The Grit To be great.”

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