"The end of government is the happiness of the people."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

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“I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.”

Source : "Johann Lamont: Facing up to Scotland's 'stark choice'". Interview With Peter Hetherington, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2012.
“Sometimes to keep it together you've got to leave it alone.”
“The reality that we were growing up in was very young and vibrant, and nobody was capturing that part of India. I started to backpack after getting out of college. I hiked and did a lot of things nobody was capturing in art at all in India, so I wrote my first novel. It was a very, trippy, experience-filled novel, and it ended up doing very well in India because nobody was writing about that at that point.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“If there are nine rabbits on the ground and you want to catch one, just focus on one.”
“The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.”
“The people with the strong, brave exteriors are just as weak and vulnerable as the rest of us. And of course they never admit to their childish practices, their moments of weakness or absurdity, and then the rest of us think that's how it should be.”
“The past is already past. Don't try to regain it. The present does not stay. Don't try to touch it from moment to moment. The future has not come. Don't think about it beforehand.”
“For the second time in history the Conservatives will have a female prime minster, proving that we are not just the greatest but the most progressive party in Britain.”

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