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~ Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life. ~

~ The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the State but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime ~

Albert Einstein

~ A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. ~

James Madison

~ States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. ~

Noam Chomsky

~ Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery ~

Prince Otto

~ To govern is always to choose among disadvantages ~

General Charles De Gaulle

~ To govern is always to choose among disadvantages ~

General Charles De Gaulle

~ All free governments are managed by the com Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges? ~

Kahlil Gibran

~ Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management ~

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

~ The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work ~

Frank Zappa

~ We've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of government himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? ~

Ronald Reagan

~ It has been objected also against a bill of rights, that, by enumerating particular exceptions to the grant of power, it would disparage those rights which were not placed in that enumeration, and it might follow by implication, that those rights which were not singled out, were intended to be assigned into the hands of the general government, and were consequently insecure. This is one of the most plausible arguments I have ever heard urged against the admission of a bill of rights into this system; but, I conceive, that may be guarded against. I have attempted it, as gentlemen may see by turning to the last clause of the 4th resolution ~

James Madison

~ The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter ~

Winston Churchill

~ The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words. ~

National Review

~ Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage ~

H.L. Mencken

~ The guilty mind debases the great image that it wears, and levels us with brutes. ~

William Havard

~ They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets another, one crime renders another necessary; and thus they are impelled continually downward into a depth of guilt, which at the commencement of their career they would have died rather than have incurred. ~

Robert Southey

~ No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. ~

Channing Pollock

~ After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual "food" out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps. ~

Miss Piggy

~ A bagel is a doughnut with the sin removed. ~

George Rosenbaum

~ Large, naked raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who lie in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter. ~

Fran Lebowitz

~ Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime ~

Edward Abbey

~ Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. ~

Mark Twain

~ This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke ~

Jane Grigson

~ A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish. ~

W. H. Auden

~ The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~

Lucille Ball

~ The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. ~

Dame Edith Sitwell

~ For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God: and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. ~

Bible

~ During meditation if you can really make yourself feel that you have only the heart, or if you can feel that you do not even have the heart, but that your whole existence from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head is the soul, then you will see that the mind does not exist. But if you cannot feel the presence of your soul, you can easily feel your heart's presence and your heart's glow. When you see light glowing in the heart or in the soul, you can rest assured that you have already transcended the intellectual mind. At this stage you have entered into the illumined mind, which is very different from the reasoning, intellectual mind ~

Sri Chinmoy

~ My meditation Is my mind's Instant ignorance-illumination And Bondage-liberation. ~

Sri Chinmoy

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