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The choice open to us is not between a system in which everybody will get what he deserves according to some absolute and universal standard of right, and one where the individual shares are determined partly by accident or good will or chance, but b |
The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill. |
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. |
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Kofi Annan (1938-) |
The real world is complex and sometimes none of the choices we have are good ones. If Attila the Hun is coming through, it's not a matter of being moral. It's kill or be killed. |
The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice |
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