"English people have seen me get through scandals."

-- George Michael

#People Quotes #Scandal Quotes

“I grew up in Siena and was surrounded by the Palio, and all my friends at school were obsessed with it. But since my parents are English, I was never quite part of it.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“The Self doesn't live forever in time, it lives in the timeless present prior to time, prior to history, change, succession. The Self is present as Pure Presence, not as everlasting duration, a rather horrible notion.”
“As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.”
“For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the case of animals prompted by their instincts, becomes crystallized almost entirely outside the individuals. In other words, social rules, as Durkheim has so powerfully shown, whether they be linguistic, moral, religious, or legal, etc., cannot be constituted, transmitted or preserved by means of an internal biological heredity, but only through the external pressure exercised by individuals upon each other.”
“Before we can teach our children, we must understand and live the principles ourselves. It is vital that the child learn from our example that what we say and what we live are the same.”
“The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.”
“You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.”

Source : John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.340, Oxford University Press, USA
“Oh yeah, just push the knife in further and twist, why doncha?!”

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