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#1

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

tags: misattributed

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#2

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy.”
― Elmer T Peterson

tags: democracy, misattributed-to-de-tocqueville

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#3

“I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

tags: democracy

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#4

“Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

tags: herd-mentality, slavery

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#5

“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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#6

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: humility, self-improvement

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#7

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
― Margaret Thatcher

tags: entitlement, government

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#8

“If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire!”
― St. Catherine of Siena

tags: fire-saints-holiness-perfection

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#9

“The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium. We have efficiently pared the claws of the Lion of Judah, certified him "meek and mild" and recommended him as a fitting household pet for pale curates and pious old ladies.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Letters to a Diminished Church: Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of Christian Doctrine

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#10

“What kind of life can you have in a house without books?”
― Sherman Alexie, Flight

tags: books, boredom, dullness, inspiration, life, necessity, reading

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#11

“Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.”
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

tags: abilities, boredom, fulfillment

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#12

“Only boring people get bored.”
― Ruth Burke

tags: advice, boredom

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#13

“Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.”
― Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

tags: boredom, catholicism, christianity, god, hearts, heaven, inspirational, jesus-shock, philosophy, spirituality, theology

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#14

“Sarayu: “Mack, if anything matters than everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will ever be the same again” (235).”
― Paul Young, The Shack

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#15

“Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real”
― Thomas Merton

tags: philosophy

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#16

“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

tags: imagination, insanity, logic-reason, poets

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#17

“To participate in the Eucharist is to live inside God’s imagination. It is to be caught up into what is really real, the body of Christ.”
― Walter Brueggemann, Prophetic Imagination

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#18

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: appreciation, awe, beauty, life, optimism, positivity, sense-of-wonder, stars

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#19

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: conduct-of-life, injury, revenge

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#20

“It will only be when people begin to like and enjoy some of the gifts in their life, and notice that they do, that prayer can become an appreciative dialogue with a Giver who loves them.”
― William A. Barry, The Practice of Spiritual Direction

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