"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
-Sydney J. Harris
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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.“
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"The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'."
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"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."
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"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
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"The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through."
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"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."
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"Every country has the government it deserves."
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"Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy."
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"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."
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"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
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