"London is like the tropical bush -- if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will break in."

-- John Buchan

#Exercise Quotes #Care Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who dont recognize common ground even when theyre standing on it.”

Source : Harry Reid's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.
“It is clear that the flame of True Freedom had passed with naval supremacy and constitutional, consultative government from the United Provinces to Great Britain, where it was regarded with quite as much national pride.”

Source : Peter Padfield (2000). “Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World”, Overlook Books
“In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.”
“A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.”
“The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.”
“History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.”
“What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics requires a form of discourse that is reasonable and accessible to believer and non-believer alike. This religious restraint in politics is critical to the maintenance of liberal democracy.”
“People aren't universally heroic.”

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