"Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness."

-- Vince Cable

#Engineering Quotes #Government Quotes #Support Quotes

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
“If you escape from people too often,, you wind up escaping from yourself.”
“How can a young person learn whether he chose the correct way? He thinks he has a special idea, and then he discovers that he is completely inappropriate for it.”
“When you stifle human potential, when you don't invest in new ideas, it doesn't just cut off the people who are affected. It hurts us all.”
“I still have very close ties to Houston and the Astros because that was my first team.”
“It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.”

Source : Paul Auster (2009). “Oracle Night: A Novel”, p.35, Macmillan
“In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the husband's fetishistic delectation. At the same time, babies were segregated, put into cold beds alone and not picked up if they cried.”
“Reagan took an approach to the Cold War dramatically different from any other US President. To wit, he thought we should win. This was a fresh concept. At the time, it was widely ridiculed as a dangerous alteration of US policy. Only after it worked was Reagan's dangerous foreign policy recast as merely a continuation of the policies of his predecessors.”

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