Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

Personal Growth

"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."

- George Bernard Shaw

Education

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."

- George Bernard Shaw

Creativity

"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."

- George Bernard Shaw

Family

"Liberty is the breath of life to nations."

- George Bernard Shaw

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

Adversity

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

Adversity

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Adversity

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

Adversity

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

Adversity