"We cant do without government, but we do need it to be more effective."

-- Jennifer Pahlka

#Government Quotes #Needs Quotes

“a greater evil than the restoration of the Bourbons to the world in general, and England in particular, can hardly happen.”

Source : Charles James Fox (1970). “Memorials and correspondence”
“The great thing about an attitude is that it's yours and you can change it.”
“In heaven, knowledge shall be commensurate with the enlarged powers of the glorified soul.”
“My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.”
“Looking at the line-up of speakers at the (Democratic National) Convention, I have developed the 7-11 challenge: I will quit making fun of, for example, Dennis Kucinich, if he can prove he can run a 7-11 properly for 8 hours. We'll even let him have an hour or so of preparation before we open up. Within 8 hours, the money will be gone, the store will be empty, and he'll be explaining how three 11-year olds came in and asked for the money and he gave it to them.”
“People don't mind positive stereotypes. People don't mind positive assumptions. It's only negative assumptions about them. So their outrage is so arbitrary.”
“The profoundest distances are never geographical.”

Source : John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”
“I remember watching steak being cooked on TV and wanting to try it. As a special treat, my mother cooked it for me, and I thought this would be the time I would eat with a knife and fork. Alas, I ate it with chopsticks!”

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