Simeon Strunsky Quotes

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

Simeon Strunsky

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• People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

  

  Simeon Strunsky
  • Time
  • Democracy
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