Democracy forever teases us ...

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
 Agnes Repplier

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
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 Dave East
We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and millions and millions of years.
 John Shelby Spong
I've always had the mentality of: work hard, get to bed early, focus - and let your work speak for itself.
 Olivia Palermo
If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
 Agnes Repplier
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
 Agnes Repplier
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
 Agnes Repplier
Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
 Agnes Repplier
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
 Agnes Repplier