"I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford."

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Source : "Nina's wars" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.

Nina Bawden

#Jobs Quotes #War Quotes #Oxford Quotes

“The Confederate flag represents the same thing to blacks as the Nazi flag represents to Jews,.”
“Over the last several days, we have heard from members of Congress who want their voices to be heard. I absolutely agree.”
“When we pray in the name of Jesus, we carry the authority of heaven.”
“Based on this one experience I had, jumping to conclusions is always really stupid.”
“Look no farther than your hand, Make a choice and take a stand.”

Source : Shannon Hale (2007). “Princess Academy”, p.178, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted - and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.”
“Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.”

Source : "Boris casts his vote: 'Spectator' editor tells 'Desert Island Discs' he'll quit to spend more time with David Cameron". Francis Elliott, Independent on Sunday, October 30, 2005.
“Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?”

Source : Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.85, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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