"I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends."

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Source : James Boswell, Roger Ingpen (1791). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.74

James Boswell

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“The constitution has put women in a position where no one will protect them from religious cliques. If a woman is the third or the fourth wife and she has no rights inside her home and, on top of that, there is domestic abuse in her house, she is doomed. Under Islamic Sharia law a woman must accept beatings from her husband. Under Islamic Sharia, she must not revolt because she is the third or fourth wife.”
“If we are the younger, we may envy the older. If we are the older, we may feel that the younger is always being indulged. In otherwords, no matter what position we hold in family order of birth, we can prove beyond a doubt that we're being gypped.”
“To captain Liverpool in any game is special, but to do it in a final, would be one of the proudest moments of my life.”
“A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.”
“We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.”
“I think it's every artist's dream to create something that will endure, something that people will listen to until there are no more people on earth to listen to things.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.”

Source : "Reflections of a Neoconservative: Looking Back, Looking Ahead". Book by Irving Kristol, 1983.
“A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.”

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