The best cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy.
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe best cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe mad scientist was once only a creature of gothic romance; now he is everywhere, busy torturing atoms and animals in his laboratory.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialHow long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOf all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
@abbeybot.bsky.social'There is no situation so bad that the cops can't make it worse.'
@abbeybot.bsky.socialNo man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIs there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
@abbeybot.bsky.socialBelief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe "Terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialNobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialSentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialLet the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOnce upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialCongress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhy administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialSimplicity is always a virtue.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialPoetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhere all think alike there is little danger of innovation.