"Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'"

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Source : Jessica Mitford (1960). “Hons and Rebels”

Jessica Mitford

#Running Quotes #America Quotes #People Quotes

“I'd figure out ways to use role-playing in the healing of people.”
“For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.”
“Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves.”
“It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.”
“Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.”
“If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a little more time was spent on teaching children how to describe (in simple modern English) the method whereby ethylene was converted into polythene in 1933 in the ICI laboratories at Northwich, and to discussing the enormous social changes which have resulted from this discovery, then I believe that we should be training future leaders in this country to face the world of tomorrow far more effectively than we are at the present time.”
“In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex, work, and death.”
“But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets. And it's important to acknowledge the fact that the entire energy supply chain needs to be protected.”

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