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Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

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James Russell Lowell
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Category: Government

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Age does not protect you from love. But love to some extent protects you from age.
  • 2. Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us one saying 'Why not?' and the other 'Why bother?'
  • 3. Look demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I tend not to wear accessories. I'm not one of those gals with a drawerful of amazing jewelry. I don't even have my ears pierced! But I have one bracelet that never comes off my wrist.
  • 2. I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it – she is an amazing baker! I'd also love to do a cookbook.
  • 3. I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.

3 Anger

  • 1. So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me because I'm happy that I have them I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside like anger.
  • 2. With Stacy it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that their different styles came out of that.
  • 3. Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. On this important anniversary we must remember that while we have come a long way in eliminating barriers critical work remains to ensure all Americans can live up to their full potential.
  • 2. Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight dinner soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays I go Fridays.
  • 3. It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed and every single one of his friends still after all these years… it's unbelievable.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
  • 2. The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them not make them worse.
  • 3. The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
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