"There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still."

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Source : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

Goldwin Smith

#Country Quotes #Black Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?”
“When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had an ally..”
“Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.”
“The best way to fill time is to waste it.”

Source : Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.123, Grove Press
“My aim is to motivate a human being, to find the champion within”
“I didn't want to fall back. But I realized it was more important to make it to the end under my own power than to run flat out in the lead or in second and then run out of fuel with a lap to go.”
“Every time I hear the name Joe Louis my nose starts to bleed.”

Source : "Wales' greatest US bouts: Tommy Farr", BBC Sport, March 31, 2008.
“When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.”

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