"I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service."

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Source : Quoted in the New York Times, 13 September 1999. Treason for health care! Why did the USSR's spies never seem to know anything true about the USSR?

Melita Norwood

#People Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Cost Quotes

“I'm a kind of private guy.”
“I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some poetry into your craven retreat from it.”

Source : Sam Lipsyte (2005). “Home Land: A Novel”, p.54, Macmillan
“The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to myself the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the desertion of friends, I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellow-man with Him from whose hand it came.”
“I smoke so much weed that you wouldn't believe and I get more ***** then a toilet seat.”
“When I was a young kid, almost every other show on television was a Western. And some of them were part of my childhood, I loved them. Like, Rifle Man, I absolutely adored. So, I think everything comes in a cycle.”

Source : "Interview with Horror Icon Tony Todd". Interview with Rob Frappier, screenrant.com. October 1, 2010.
“But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears, to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe.”
“Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents”
“Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.”

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