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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.


Sydney J. Harris


#asking #democracy #only #ought #persists

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.


Marcus Tullius Cicero


#error #his #idiot #make #man

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.


Thomas Merton


#else #existence #fails #find #finding

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?


George Orwell


#fair #gives #hearing #his #intelligent

Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk.


Paul Sarbanes


#being #our #our people #people #persists

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.


Fisher Ames


#away #eggs #gentleman #hen #her

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.


Albert Camus


#barbarous #because #been #centuries #check

What we resist persists.


Sonia Johnson


#resist

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.


William Blake


#folly #fool #his #persists #who

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.


Eudora Welty


#connect #developed #fiction #find #follow






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