"If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government."

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Source : "In Defence Of Politics". Book by Bernard Crick, 1962.

Bernard Crick

#Government Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Support Quotes

“The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth.”
“Chemistry is important. If you like your teammates, it's going to be easier to play with them on the court.”
“ALS does not affect cognitive process. Stephen Hawking, one of smartest people on the planet, has ALS. It rarely affects the eyes. It doesn't affect senses like hearing, taste and touch.”

Source : "Atlanta Radio Hosts Fired After Mocking Steve Gleason, ALS During ‘Mayhem In the AM’ Show" By Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2013.
“Swift doth young Love flee, And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream.”

Source : George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.8027, Library of Alexandria
“I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune. Since they have the same improvable minds as the male part of their species.”
“We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time this happens I am struck again by the permanent impassibility of the divide. Some people who have lost a husband or a wife report feeling that person's presence, receiving that person's advice. Some report actual sightings, what Freud described in "Mourning and Melancholia" as "a clinging to the object through the medium of a hallucinatory wishful psychosis." Others describe not a visible apparition but just a "very strongly felt presence."”
“It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness.”
“Whip us 'till we're on the floor, we'll turn around and ask for more, we're PhÃ¨dre's Boys! We like to hurt, we like to bleed, daily floggings do we need, we're PhÃ¨dre's Boys! Man or woman, we don't care, give us twins we'll take the pair! We're PhÃ¨dre's Boys! ...But just because we let you beat us, doesn't mean you can defeat us, we're PhÃ¨dre's Boys!”

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