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Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

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If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#accountability #basis #being #being done #done

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority. ↗

— James Madison

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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense. ↗

— James Madison

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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. ↗

— James Madison

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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. ↗

— James Madison

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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. ↗

— James Madison

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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself. ↗

— James Madison

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We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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