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Saturday, 6 September 2008
Daily Quote:
"The State, that craving rookery of committees and subcommittees." (Pritchett, V. S. - Committees and Meetings)

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All that glitters is not gold.

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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.

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