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" Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective. "

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" Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place. "

" Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people. "

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" A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out. "

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" Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness. "

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" When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind. "

" The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It's fine to be a pop star. 'Oh, it's great, lots of fun, aren't they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!' "

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" I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender. "

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