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“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
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“I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.”
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“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.”
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
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To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
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“Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”
― Churchill Speaks: Collected Speeches in Peace and War, 1897-1963
― Churchill Speaks: Collected Speeches in Peace and War, 1897-1963
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