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Betapa tidak mudahnya memadukan antara demokrasi sebagai proses dengan hasilnya. Pada awalnya, tujuan demokrasi adalah mencari pilihan terbaik di antara yang terburuk: agar suara rakyat menjadi tuan rumah atas kehendaknya sendiri. Asumsinya, suara mayoritas adalah suara terbaik. Karena itu, demokrasi substansial membutuhkan sejumlah syarat; Mulai dari melek politik, sampai kemapanan kebudayaan.

If you'd like to watch less television, try putting the remote away in a very inconvenient place and making yourself put it away every time you use it. If it's a big pain to turn on the TV and to change channels, you might find yourself drifting to other activities that will be more satisfying in the long run.

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

I think better of our behaviour as individuals than I do when we see ourselves as members of a group. It's when people start forming groups that we have to watch our backs.

In my time as Archbishop of Canterbury I've seen a growing sense of unity and mission.

I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the heart of things. Somehow, words seemed big enough to contain pain, and sentences could pull broken bits together.

We cannot expect systemic success when our teachers are underpaid and under-resourced, or when they split time being caretakers and counselors for our children as well.

If anything, I don't have to convince the American public that we have a broken health-care system. I think the majority of Americans since they have to go through that health-care system, already know it.

I love breakfast! Not only is it the most important meal of the day, but I loved waking up to - the smell of bacon in the morning was my favorite thing as a kid!

I like honesty and fair play.

I grew up before there were strict leash laws.

If you mess with Magee, expect to get burned.

Lindsay Lohan was the 'It' girl from, like, 14. That's a lot of pressure.

It strains credulity to suggest that an agency charged with gathering intelligence affecting the national security does not have an 'intelligence interest' in drone strikes, even if that agency does not operate the drones itself.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

Not to sound too hippie, but I work so much off of energy. I'm a Pisces, and that's part of who I am.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.