"I regret that it has been necessary for……" — Alfred North Whitehead
"I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are."
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Alfred North Whitehead
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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of…
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How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
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It is better to give love. Hatred is a low and degrading motion and is so poisonous that no man…
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— Hippocrates
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Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . .…
— Noah Webster
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It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who…
— James Madison
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[T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those…
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To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.
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