"The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure……" — George F. Kennan

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• This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen. — James Weldon Johnson
• "Ju" means being natural or in other words the way which is natural and in accords with the truth of… — Kyuzo Mifune
• Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a… — Walter Lippmann
• Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise. — Lord Byron
• During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which… — Augustus De Morgan
• The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic,… — Albert Hofmann
• Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of… — Immanuel Kant
• It is the most painful thing to see how young children become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties… — Danny Glover
• I avow that I do not hold that complete and instantaneous love for the freedom of the press that one… — Alexis de Tocqueville
• The satisfaction of physical needs is indeed the indispensable pre-condition of a satisfactory existence, but in itself it is not… — Albert Einstein
• What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they… — Carl Jung

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