"And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?"
-Thomas Babington Macaulay
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"American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.“
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
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"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
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