"Nothing is more conservative than conservation"

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Russell Kirk

#Conservative Quotes #Conservation Quotes

“It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.”
“The way I've always governed my life as far as fiscal policy goes is I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb about it, so I surround myself with smart people in much the same way a hole surrounds itself with a doughnut. I just pay things off. That's all I do.”
“For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it,”
“Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If so, there may well be sentient beings somewhere in the galaxy wondering, as do we, if they are not alone in the universe.”
“They always win who side with God.”
“There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.”

Source : "Mozart of film music". Interview With Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.
“We'll explain the appeal of curling to you if you explain the appeal of the National Rifle Association to us.”
“Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.”

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