How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing.
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The most fundamental value of a liberal education isthat it makes life more interesting.
brewster, kingman, jr.Thething whichamazesme isthat I know perfectly well, as a historian, that there is corruption in any governmentthere's always corruption. It's bad when it's more than fifteen percent.
My general impression isthat Englishmen act better than Frenchmen, and Frenchwomen better than Englishwomen.
(Enoch) Arnold BennettIt is only when you get to see and realize what India isthat she is the strength and the greatness of Englandthat you feel that every nerve a man may strain, every energy he may put forward, cannot be devoted to a nobler purpose than keeping tight the cords that hold India to ourselves.
Lord George Nathaniel Curzon (of Kedleston)You have a row of dominoes set up.You knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last isthat it will go over very quickly.
What I'd really liketosayabout stardom isthat it gave me everything I never wanted.
The worstthing thatcanhappento oldgoodmusic isthat it might become dated for a while, but watch out, in twenty years it will come drifting back like bell-bottoms and W.C. Fields movies.
What characterizes a member of a minority group isthat he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
Norman Kingsley MailerFineart isthat inwhichthe hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
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