Mary Katharine Ham famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.
In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.
The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.
Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.
If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

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