Famous quotes containing the words time and/or trial:
“All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.”
—Havelock Ellis (18591939)
“Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accidentthe luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.”
—Edward C. Banfield (b. 1916)
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