POINTS TO PONDER CXI

There is nothing, absolutely nothing, which needs to be more carefully guarded against than that one man should be allowed to become more powerful than the people. 

Demosthenes - Greek statesman and orator of the Golden Age

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Although three-quarters of our planet is covered by water, most of it is more than two miles deep. So even those of us who spend our lives in, on, and around the sea are barely able to scratch its surface. 

Peter Benchley

Source: Ocean Planet