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Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what youre told.

Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what youre told. – Dave Barry

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Well try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. – Dave Barry

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Patriotism
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Dave Barry
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The problem with winter sports is that – follow me closely here – they generally take place in winter. – Dave Barry

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Sports
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Dave Barry
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough…. I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding. – Dave Barry

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Skiing
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In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects. – J. William Fulbright

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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization. – Sir Winston Churchill

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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. – James Fenimore Cooper

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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesnt eradicate the reality of the suffering. Its all true at once, kind of humming and sublime. – George Saunders

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If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that theres not a whole lot of money for school, they wont have too many options. – Suze Orman

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But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions. – Jack Herer

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