"Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics."

-- James Russell Lowell

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“When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.”
“I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean.”
“For me, as for so many runners, there really are no finish lines. Runs end; running doesn't.”
“Love can wait to give. Lust can't wait to get.”
“I felt so free for a week. But then, all of a sudden, within days I went from 'Yay, I'm independent' to 'Holy f**k, I'm gonna die alone.'”
“The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.”

Source : Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.57, Cosimo, Inc.
“It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.”
“Ultimately this issue is on us. We're the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.”

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