"Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands - though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity."

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Source : Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.23, University of Chicago Press

Bernard Crick

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“[...]if you talk any more flummery to me, Frederica, I shall give you one of myâ€”erâ€”icy set-downs!â€(Alverstoke)”
“I was the one that put myself in rehab. I was the one that went to my parents and said, you know, 'I have a problem and I need to take care of it.”
“Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror.”
“Everybody deserves a fresh start every once in a while.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.”
“Iâ€™ve grown a lot, and Iâ€™m learning every week.”
“As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.”
“Though I am alive now, I do not believe an old man's pessimism is nessessarily truer than a young man's optimism simply because it comes after. There are things a young man knows that are true and are not yet in the old man's power to recollect. Spring has its sappy wisdom.”

Source : Richard Rodriguez (1993). “Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father”, Penguin Group USA

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