"Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living."

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Source : 1963 In theManchester Guardian, 18 Dec.

Harold MacMillan

#Mean Quotes #Doe Quotes #Tradition Quotes

“McIntyre hesitated, and for a moment the tall, gray-haired man looked almost boyish. "After all this time...don't you think you could call me William?" Amy and Dan exchanged glances. As fond as they were of him, they couldn't imagine calling their lawyer by his first name. He saw the hesitation on their faces. "Will?" Amy cleared her throat. Dan fiddled with the new GPS. "How about 'Mac'?" "Mac," Dan said, trying out the name. Mr. McIntyre looked wistful. "I always wanted to be a Mac.”
“The common denominator is that we want to make the world a better place, for women and for everybody, and we do it through sport.”
“The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.”
“There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right." One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.”
“It is an amazing thing, the difference to oneâ€™s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.”

Source : Laurie R. King (2012). “O Jerusalem”, p.55, Allison & Busby
“If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it.”
“Every man has a purpose, something special that he can do better than anyone else. Your work is to discover this, then give yourself to it. The extent to which you use your skills to add to the world determines your happiness.”
“You can't lose a game in which you're not even competing.”

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