"No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician."

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Source : 1656 The Commonwealth of Oceana.

James Harrington

#Men Quotes #May Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“It made a big difference to my match stamina. I couldn't imagine I would have been so energetic during the match - it really gave me a welcomed extra boost!”
“How did Mike Bibby get on the team? Any Cub Scout with Boy Scouts can do Boy Scoutish things. When Bibby was in the Cub Scouts, he was a Cub Scout. When he was with Vancouver, nobody heard about him. Now that he's with Sacramento... he's on the team. I ain't going.”
“The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.”

Source : Dame Barbara Hepworth (1970). “A Pictorial Autobiography”
“There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.”
“It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.”
“You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset.”
“All this I say that you may understand not only in the mind but rather in the spirit. The mind weighs and measures but it is the spirit that reaches the heart of life and embraces the secret; and the seed of the spirit is deathless.”
“I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.”

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