H. G. Wells Quotes
The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.
H. G. Wells
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I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, beliefs and lifestyles, the Right sees the disintegration of a country, a nation, a people, and its replacement with a Tower of Babel. Visions in conflict that democracy cannot reconcile.
Pat Buchanan
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
Ralph Nader
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Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
Aaron Brown
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
Karen Armstrong
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From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.
Narendra Modi
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They (Left Front government) have destroyed democratic institutions in the state. Parliamentary democracy becomes strong when there is an independent police, administration and judiciary.
Pranab Mukherjee
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It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen that easily. It just doesn't. And so I don't act up in public and I don't do anything weird - because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.
Gabourey Sidibe
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Piglet opened the letter box and climbed in. Then, having untied himself, he began to squeeze into the slit, through which in the old days when front doors were front doors, many an unexpected letter than WOL had written to himself, had come slipping.
A. A. Milne
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Part of the power of having startup communities is it continues to challenge the status quo. So for many of these cities that were once very important and powerful that today are struggling, startup communities are a way for them to rejuvenate themselves.
Brad Feld
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No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.
Seth Godin
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The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.
H. G. Wells