"I don't mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is no reason for the State to pay for them."

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Source : "Clarke Dismisses Medieval Historians". Speech at University College, Worcester, www.theguardian.com. May 09, 2003.

Charles Clarke

#Mind Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Pay Quotes

“The other advantage England have got when Phil Tufnell is bowling is that he isn't fielding”
“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”
“The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.”

Source : Matthew Fontaine Maury (1858). “The Physical Geography of the Sea”, p.147
“We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat or we can talk ourselves into victory.”
“The English are probably the most tolerant, least religious people on earth.”
“I know how to become a top 5 teamJust play Texas A&M.”
“Someone who bears a grudge while he prays is like a person who sows in the sea and expects to reap a harvest.”
“Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.”

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