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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. ↗

— Plato

#individuals #into #liberty #lies #only

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. ↗

— Lady Bird Johnson

#community #democratic #entrance #interest #library

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#earning #living #nobly #only #think

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#never #only #robs #saps #sorrow

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised. ↗

— Freya Stark

#almost #always #being #comfort #great

A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. ↗

— Edith Head

#clothes #designer #good #her #only

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#breathing #day #hear #her #i

In a mad world, only the mad are sane. ↗

— Akira Kurosawa

#only #sane #world

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#art #bars #books #content #forest

Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves. ↗

— Allen West

#assumes #best #better #care #each