"The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it"

-- Tony Benn

#Politics Quotes #Fundamentals Quotes #Excuse Quotes

“A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“You can teach to a wall, but when you help someone learn, you have to get involved with the whole person.”
“My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.”
“Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.”
“I'm the worst at favourites! I don't have one - I love all my children, I love them all equally.”
“The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.”
“And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.”
“In some domains it looks as though our identical twins reared apart are...just as similar as identical twins reared together. Now that's an amazing finding and I can assure you none of us would have expected that degree of similarity.”

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