"I have not the slightest doubt that the economic measures and the Socialist measures which one will find in the countries of Eastern Europe, will become increasingly powerful against the unco-ordinated, planless society in which the West is living at present."

-- James Callaghan

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“I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them.”
“Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.”
“There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable.”

Source : "America at Risk: Two Novels President Obama Should Read". www.foxnews.com. March 31, 2009.
“Everyone lies about sex, more or less, to themselves if not to others, to others if not to themselves, exaggerating its importance or minimizing its pull.”

Source : Daphne Merkin (1997). “Dreaming of Hitler: Passions & Provocations”, Crown
“You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.”

Source : Italo Svevo (2015). “Zeno's Conscience”, p.91, Vintage
“As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.”
“There's bound to be a recovery in [capital spending] sometime soon. We have had basically no capital investment for about year. At some point, machinery wears out, and you've got to replace it.”
“Women are so strangely constructed that they have in them darkness as well as light, though it be but a little curtain hung across the sun. And love is the hand that takes the curtain down, a stronger hand than fear, which hung it up. For all the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.”

Source : Eleanor Farjeon (2013). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”, p.181, Random House

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