Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H. L. Mencken

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.
Jeff Melvoin

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Laurence J. Peter

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
Tom Stoppard

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
Will Rogers

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Aristotle

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
Cicero

Dude, game off. :1orglaugh

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Arthur Golden,

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
Christine Bovee

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
Anatole France

Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle

They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.
Henry Bromel

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike

One must desire something to be alive.
Margaret Deland,

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.
Oprah Winfrey

Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.
Tommy Cooper


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Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
William Dement

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Dave Barry

If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
Dean Martin

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz

[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.
Henry David Thoreau

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
Heraclitus

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
Oscar Levant

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
John Kenneth Galbraith

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
Alfred A. Knopf

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Laurence J. Peter

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In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Peter Drucker

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
Richard Feynman


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It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Alec Bourne

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Anatole France

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
Claiborne Pell


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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esar


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College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Helen Keller

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain

another good one..

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Mary Pettibone Poole,

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
Pete Seeger

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Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Andre Maurois

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian