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Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to confusion and disagreement, for 'democracy' has meant different things to different people at different times and places.
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I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.
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Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty.
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Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
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At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land.
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One capability every business is expected to have is the capability to make money. It requires a certain kind of discipline, a certain kind of mindset.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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I think there's a little confusion between humor and 'gross' passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable, because they aren't the same thing.
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One thing I've always liked about the military is there's a certain amount of pragmatism.


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But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing.


Isabelle Huppert
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People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.
Zadie Smith
On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.
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I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.


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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.


Saadi
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I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.


Lawrence Welk
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Everybody's got a 'thing.' Some 'things' are nice and quiet. Some 'things' have fangs and claws. Some 'things' stink and have slobber everywhere.
Iyanla Vanzant
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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so is dearly purchased at a sacrifice.
Robert E. Lee
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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If there ever has been any confusion about my sexuality, then you are someone that doesn't even know me!
Jonathan Knight
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I've never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate.


Olympia Snowe
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