“ Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. ”
- Brenda Ueland- Copy
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“ Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits.". ”
- Paul Graham- Copy
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“ The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. - Reflections on Life. ”
- Alexis Carrel- Copy
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“ Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. ”
- Harry Shearer- Copy
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“ Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves. ”
- Larry McMurtry- Copy
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“ The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it. ”
- Laurence J. Peter- Copy
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“ Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate. ”
- Leon Jaworski- Copy
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“ The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. ”
- Lord Acton- Copy
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“ A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done. ”
- Fred A. Allen- Copy
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“ I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth. ”
- Thomas H. Huxley- Copy
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“ Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves. ”
- Brendan Behan- Copy
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“ Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against the truth. ”
- Thomas Huxley- Copy
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“ Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivotal fear. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern. ”
- Nigel Lawson- Copy
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“ These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished. ”
- Christopher Columbus- Copy
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“ I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise. ”
- Hayao Miyazaki- Copy
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“ I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything. ”
- George Herbert Palmer- Copy
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“ Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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