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«To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.»
Author: Louis L'Amour
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
notion, observers, participant, participants, right to vote, The Observer, the participants, vote
«We must overcome the notion that we must be regular...it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.»
«We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.»
Author: Allan Bloom
| Keywords:
flourished, fragments, notion, pop, popped, pops, pop up, shepherds, site, sites, structures
«To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
conceived, defined, morality, notion, public, public morality, set up, standard, tyranny
«We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
fully, grasp, import, imported, imports, notion, of import, opposite, statement, The Statement, true statement, untrue
«We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down. Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success -- only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, progressive, and free. Trust the people. This is the one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
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allowed, Bottom Up, contradicting, controls, deciding, dynamic, economic, economically, Economic development, economic growth, Economic policies, Free market, free spirit, fulfillment, invent, irrefutable, market, notion, period, Personal development, policies, postwar, progressive, rigid, societies, stake, ultimately
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