Quotes
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William Henry Chamberlin

"Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the new system where they are divorced from personal ownership of the land and obligated to work on the conditions which the state may demand from them... This famine may fairly be called political because it was not the result of any overwhelming natural catastrophe or such complete exhaustions of the country's resources in foreign and civil wars..."

-- William Henry Chamberlin

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“Singing in second language makes you brave in a way you're not aware of. You say things in very blunt ways or direct ways. It sets your mind free because you don't have a history with the language. You have to use the most direct way of communication, which is saying what you want to say in the way you can.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I'll never play a drum solo you can't dance to.”
“I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels.”
“A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.”

Source : Leah Stewart (2005). “The Myth of You and Me: A Novel”, p.126, Crown
“The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.”

Source : Anthony Storr (2005). “Solitude: A Return to the Self”, p.61, Simon and Schuster
“Pray over every truth; for though the renewed heart is not "desperately wicked," it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment.”
“Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society.”
“I was about one drink away from my limit, In came a black dress with a black body in it, She looked so timid, it took me a minute To get her in focus”

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