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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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28.3.02

Josa Saramago: Justice and Democracy Denied Along with the many other issues we should discuss, we need urgently, before it is too late, to encourage an international debate on democracy and the reasons for decline. We need to debate the intervention of citizens in political and social life, and between states and global economic and financial forces.
We need to think about what enhances and what denies democracy; about the right to happiness and dignity; about the woes and hopes of humanity -- about human beings, as individuals or collectively. Self-deceit is the worst of errors. But self-deceit is all around us.

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