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___�All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.� Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

___�We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable [inalienable] Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty , and the Pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...� Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).

___Democracy: �government by the people; especially : rule of the majority�, the first definition of �democracy� in the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

___�Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
___In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.� Aristotle

__�We are a people capable of self-government, and worthy of it.� �Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Weaver, Jr., 1807.

___�No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.��Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1814.

___�My most earnest wish is to see the republican element of popular control pushed to the maximum of its practicable exercise. I shall then believe that our government may be pure and perpetual.� �Thomas Jefferson to Isaac H. Tiffany, 1816.

___�The will of the people... is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.� �Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waring, 1801.

___�The measures of the fair majority... ought always to be respected.� �Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1792.

___�I subscribe to the principle, that the will of the majority honestly expressed should give law.� �Thomas Jefferson: The Anas, 1793.

___�Silence is the virtue of fools� Francis Bacon

___�What is now proved was once only imagined.� William Blake

___�The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.� Alan Saporta

___�That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind� Neil Armstrong

___“In unity there is strength” from Aesop’s Fables, The Bundle of Sticks.

___�I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.� Confucius

___�No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.� Eleanor Roosevelt

___�The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.� Franklin D. Roosevelt

___�Everything has been figured out, except how to live.� Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

___�To err is human � and to blame it on a computer is even more so.� Orben's Current Comedy

___�I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.� Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943