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“growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.”

Growth Democracy Essence Responsible Oppression Division Dissent

Author:Abigail McCarthy

“The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.”

Real Lying Understanding Growth Marriage Essence Partners Acceptable

Author:Wallis Simpson

“It may be that a free society... carries in itself the forces of its own destruction, that once freedom has been achieved it is taken for granted and ceases to be valued, and that the free growth of ideas which is the essence of a free society will bring about the destruction of the foundations on which it depends.”

May Has Beens Ideas Force Growth Taken Depends Destruction Essence Foundation Cease Granted Carrie Free Society Taken For Granted

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Difficulties with material things often come to remind us that our concentration should be on spiritual things instead of material things. Sometimes difficulties of the body come to show that the body is just a transient garment, and that the reality is the indestructible essence which activates the body. But when we can say, 'Thank God for problems which are sent for our spiritual growth.' They are no longer problems. They then become opportunities.”

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.”

May Book Certain Fall Grows Growth Fields Reader Essence Falling In Love Stranger Fantastic Crops Fallouts

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7

“The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital, not formal; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a dictionary, but by considering their origin and the line of their growth.”

Government Form Growth Lines Essence Constitution Institutions Mathematical Soil Significance Formulas Considering Formal Dictionary Provision

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.