"Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation"

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Tony Benn

#Mean Quotes #Self Quotes #Community Quotes

“My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer.”
“All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.”
“You can't hurt someone who doesn't care about you.”
“The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.”
“The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they have chosen to avoid. Yet that is precisely what Obamacare does: It forces Americans without health insurance to purchase coverage. Such a requirement is unprecedented and unconstitutional.”
“For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.”
“Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.”
“He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.”

Source : Stephen Crane (2014). “The Red Badge of Courage”, p.78, Broadview Press

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