Quotes with spartan

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• Everyone knew that democracy-direct rule by all the people-required such spartan, self-denying virtue on the part of all the people that it was likely to survive only where poverty made upright behavior necessary for the perpetuation of the race.

  The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p

  Bernard Bailyn
  American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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• Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a spartan webpage that converts over a beautiful page that doesn't have the data to back it up.

  Ben Parr
  American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• democracy-direct
• people-required
• self-denying
• perpetuation
• locations
• beautiful

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