"Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all."

-- Edmund Burke

#Political Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Directors Quotes

“Reading to small children is a specialty.”
“The decisive means for politics is violence.”

Source : Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.121, Routledge
“In the dancehall world, we have crews and they battle. It's part of the entire culture surrounding dancehall.”

Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com
“England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.”

Source : Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”
“Caring about what people think of me decreases everyday.”
“There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.”
“Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half a million generations ago. This is not long by evolutionary standards.”

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