"A simple democracy is the devil's own government."

-- Benjamin Rush

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“I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that the various forms under which the forces of matter are made manifest have one common origin; or, in other words, are so directly related and mutually dependent, that they are convertible, as it were, one into another, and possess equivalents of power in their action.”
“[It's] useful to ask ourselves, 'Just how global are we?' before we think about where we go from here.”
“A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot.”

Source : Craig Johnson (2007). “Death Without Company: A Walt Longmire Mystery”, p.8, Penguin
“I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.”
“We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.”
“Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts.”

Source : Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press
“I still have a struggle reading (dyslexia, fh) and so I don't read much.. ..Probably the only reason I'm painter is because I couldn't read yet I love to write, but when I write I know what I'm writing, but when I'm reading I can't see it, because it goes from all sides of the page at once. But that's very good for printmaking.”
“Good students are good at all things.”

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