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  1. If the voter cannot grasp the details of the problems of the day because he has not the time, the interest or the knowledge, he will not have a better public opinion because he is asked to express his opinion more often.
    -- Walter Lippmann

    #Wisdom #Quotes #WalterLippmann #Democracy

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  2. It is one of the ironies of our time that, while concentrating on the defense of our country against enemies from without, we should be so heedless of those who would destroy it from within.
    -- Rachel Carson (1953)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #RachelCarson #Conservation #Nature

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  3. There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
    -- Niccolo Machiavelli

    #Wisdom #Quotes #NiccoloMachiavelli #Change

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  4. Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
    -- Reinhold Niebuhr

    #Wisdom #Quotes #ReinholdNiebuhr #Democracy #Injustice #Justice

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  5. The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency.
    -- Elihu Root

    #Wisdom #Quotes #ElihuRoot #Discipline

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  6. No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
    -- Henry Adams

    #Wisdom #Quotes #HenryAdams #Communication

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  7. When cybernated and automatic machinery can reduce toil to the near vanishing point, nothing is more meaningless to young people than a lifetime of toil. When modern industry can provide abundance for all, nothing is more vicious to poor people than a lifetime of poverty. When all the resources exist to promote social equality, nothing is more criminal to ethnic minorities, women and homosexuals than subjugation.
    -- Murray Bookchin (Post-Scarcity Anarchism)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #MurrayBookchin #Automation #Capitalism #Equality #Poverty

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  8. Every doctor in large practice finds himself, every now and then, obliged to deceive his patients.
    -- Wilkie Collins (The Moonstone)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #WilkieCollins #Deception #Physicians

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  9. Do not let the bread of the hungry mildew in your larder! Do not let moths eat the poor man's cloak. Do not store the shoes of the barefoot. Do not hoard the money of the needy. Things you possess in too great abundance belong to the poor and not to you. You are the thief who steals from God if you are able to help your neighbor and refuse to do it.
    -- Christine de Pizan (1364-1430 CE)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristinedePizan #Charity #Wealth

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  10. Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
    -- Aldous Huxley

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  11. Freedom is a balancing act that requires knowing when to relinquish authority.... Too much control prevents us from seeing possibilities beyond our immediate desires. Too much order stifles the healthy chaos, the restlessness, of a truly open mind.
    -- Andrew Shapiro

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AndrewShapiro #Authority #Freedom #OpenMind

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  12. Being digital will change the nature of mass media from a process of pushing bits at people to one of allowing people (or their computers) to pull at them.
    -- Nicholas Negroponte

    #Wisdom #Quotes #NicholasNegroponte #Computers #Publishing

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  13. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
    -- Eric Hoffer

    #Wisdom #Quotes #EricHoffer #SelfAwareness

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  14. The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
    -- R. D. Laing

    #Wisdom #Quotes #RDLaing #SelfKnowledge

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