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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Speaker: E. B. WhitePosted: 29 Sep 2009 at 8:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
One day, he thought, he might learn the lesson that lying about one’s very identity was a purely short-term strategy, useful only in relationships that had a limited life-span. You could tell a bus conductor or a taxi driver all sorts of rubbish, provided the journey was brief, but if you intended to spend the rest of your life with somebody, then it was kind of inevitable that she would find out things sooner or later.