"Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs."

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Source : 'Hansard' 3 February 1969, col. 88

Michael Foot

#Thinking Quotes

“The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.”
“Friday is my night for letting my hair down, and once a month a group of my old male friends will come down and stay at our house in Hampshire.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.”
“It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling â€” or new. The character itself of being startling, spectacular, or upsetting has become conventionalized, part of safe good taste.”

Source : Clement Greenberg (1969). “Avant-garde Attitudes: New Art in the Sixties”
“The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery.”
“I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.”
“He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.”
“Picasso didn't stop painting when he was 41 years old because he felt he wasn't relevant, but he kept going and the painting he made before he died are now worth 40 million dollars.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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