"We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules."

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Source : Getting On (1972) act 1

Alan Bennett

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“The general verdict among the German generals I interrogated in 1945 was that Field-Marshal von Manstein had proved the ablest commander in their Army, and the man they had most desired to become its Commander-in-Chief. It is very clear that he had a superb sense of operational possibilities and equal mastery in the conduct of operations, together with a greater grasp of the potentialities of mechanized forces than any other commander who had not been trained in the tank arm. In sum, he had military genius.”
“The U.S. has historically been the world's largest contributor to climate change.”
“The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.”
“Mosts scientist are unable to arrive at a specific definition of biological evolution. â€œBiological evolution isâ€¦ change in the properties of populations of organisms (you and me) that [happen during] the lifetime of a single individual. The changes in populations that are considered evolutionary are those that are inheritable via the genetic material from one generation to the next”
“It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.”
“The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old.”
“Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.”

Source : "Sir Trevor McDonald". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.
“Jazz is not a 'form' but a collection of tags and tricks.”

Source : "The World of Music". The Sunday Times, September 4, 1927.

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