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In other words a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

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Alexis de Tocqueville
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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. Utility is the great idol of the age to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
  • 2. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters economists and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
  • 3. We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda it's still a fantastic amazing place.
  • 2. Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination… a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.
  • 3. Obviously there's the seedy side of the strip club world and pole dancing. But pole dancing as an art form is really beautiful. It's been hyper-sexualized because it's associated with strippers but if you think about it just in terms of other kinds of dancing they're using an instrument to create these amazing dance forms.

3 Anger

  • 1. Take the high road. No matter how much strife and consternation frustration and anger you might be confronted with – don't go to that level.
  • 2. Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
  • 3. When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry count to one hundred.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.
  • 2. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
  • 3. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.

5 Architecture

  • 1. What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.
  • 2. Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
  • 3. Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.
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