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Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.


Flora Lewis


#arisen #aspiration #concepts #democracy #dignity

Before venturing on so large an undertaking as is involved in the task I had set myself I consulted a number of distinguished scholars as to the desirability of such a series.


James Loeb


#consulted #desirability #distinguished #had #i

If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using 'an outside agency' and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf.


Henry Longhurst


#appropriate #call #god #golf #improve

Actually, if I could find a woman who was that wonderful; that understanding, well, I'd give her everything in the world that was in my power to give. And, I'd love her more than I ever thought it possible to love any woman.


James MacArthur


#any #could #ever #everything #find

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.


Niccolo Machiavelli


#excellent #first #good #intelligence #itself

Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm.


Ferdinand Lassalle


#blind #dangerous #democratic #development #effect

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.


Bill Laswell


#career #existence #how #image #know

Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.


Niki Lauda


#because #competition #competitor #each #go

When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery.


Robert B. Laughlin


#began #discovery #ever #following #fractional

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.


Michel Legrand


#all day #alone #already #behind #boring






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