"There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water."

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Source : 1990 Diary entry, 30 Nov.

Alan Clark

#True Friend Quotes #Sharks Quotes #Blood Quotes

“The important things are always simple.”
“Praise the invisible sun burning beyond the white cold sky, giving us light and the chimney's shadow.”
“I have always been a spectator of life, you know, never a participant. Never. But now I am. Today I am, and I an awed and deliriously happy. This is the adventure I asked for, the adventure I am having I will be forever grateful to you.”
“There is 'a time to be born' - and born again, free of accumulated, encrusted sores of fears and prejudices, old hates, of cancerous wounds, old prides. And there is a time to die - a time for the blue, unburied child of our young years to be decently interred - and to get on with the living.”
“The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.”

Source : Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.70, Ludwig von Mises Institute
“Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.”
“When I finish playing football, I would like to work with kids and sleep!”
“I would like to play for audiences who are not using my music to stimulate their sex organs.”

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