The survival of democracy ...

The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

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Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.