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The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significa

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole. – Bernard Devoto

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Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows. – Bernard Devoto

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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. – e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

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