"As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything."

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To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.

— Thomas Sowell