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- The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and…
- An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to…
- Efficiency in an assembly requires a solid mass of steady votes; and these are collected by a deferential attachment to particular men, or by a…
- Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government in…
- We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark…
- Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized…
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- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
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