Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.

Abraham Lincoln

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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Nothing is, unless our thinking makes it so.

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If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

Intentions do not insulate us from the consequences of our actions.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Nothing in the world is more yielding and softer than water; yet it penetrates the hardest. Insubstantial, it enters where no room is. It is so fine that it is impossible to grasp a handful of it; strike it, yet it does not suffer hurt; stab it, and it is not wounded.

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