"World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings."

-- Denis Healey

#Issues Quotes #Events Quotes #World Quotes

“Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.”
“This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner.”
“If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.”
“The duties of men are summarily comprised in the Ten Commandments, consisting of two tables; one comprehending the duties which we owe immediately to God-the other, the duties we owe to our fellow men.”
“You can enjoy a $15 bottle of wine as much as you can enjoy a $100 bottle of wine.”

Source : "Joe Bastianich reveals restaurants' dark secrets, talks lawsuit". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. May 1, 2012.
“Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such efforts are doomed to failure. For the strong the weak are just too much of a temptation; and in all fairness it seems to me quite wicked for black people to have tempted the powerful with so much powerless-ness for so long. The obvious answer is to redress this imbalance in power.”

Source : Lewis Nkosi (1983). “Home and exile and other selections”, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
“The fact is that Margaret Thatcher was never really a Conservative.”
“The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.”

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