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Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

#democracy #like #limits #relationship #rests

Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#around #best #big #body #crude

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#before #computers #connect #equally #lines

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#being #completeness #course #desire #even

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#communicated #communication #experiences #other #poetry

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#average #build #democracies #democracy #democratic

I'm particularly fortunate to be in a position where I can bring my child to work and be able to get good child care. Not a lot of women have that. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#bring #care #child #child care #fortunate

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#ask #been #capacity #either #exhausts

As a single mum I have to work, so I'm grateful to have the help of a wonderful and trusted nanny like I had when I was young. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#had #help #i #like #mum

This is freedom,’ said the instructress, ‘it’s something very wintry, and cannot be borne for long. One must always keep moving, as we are doing here, one must dance in freedom. It is cold and beautiful. Never fall in love with it. That would only make you sad afterwards, for one can only be in the realm of freedom for a moment, no longer. Look how the wonderful track we are floating on is slowly melting away. Now you can watch freedom dying, if you open your eyes… ↗

— Robert Walser

#robert-walser #beauty