Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
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Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity rates and to increase the population ... in the matter of abortion the human rights of the mother with her family must take precedence over the survival of a few weeks' old foetus without sense or sensibility.
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I learned that economics was not an exact science and that the most erudite men would analyze the economic ills of the world and derive a totally different conclusion.
-- Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill
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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.
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Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?
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In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
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An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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There were probably a few games I played where I should not have played, because of some nagging injuries or something. I used to always talk the managers into playing me, because I wanted to play so badly.
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