"As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me."

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Source : Ballads for Broadbrows (1930) "Lines for a Worthy Person"

A. P. Herbert

#Goodbye Quotes #Art Quotes #Father Quotes

“I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.”
“I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.”
“I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.”
“If you give a discount there's a desperation there and I like to substitute desperation with service and real quality. And the desperation goes away.”
“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all . . . . It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain”

Source : Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.
“Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.”

Source : Ely Culbertson (1946). “Must We Fight Russia?”, Philadelphia ; Toronto : John C. Winston
“One must be wary of the view that these loose and diverse coalitions represent a new form of globalized participatory democracy. The dissent industry is largely a product of the Internet revolution. Inexpensive, borderless, real-time networking provides advocacy non-governmental organizations [NGOs] with economies of scale and also of scope by linking widely disparate groups with one common theme.”
“I was sixteen and equipped with the appropriate genitalia, so I cleared that hurdle nicely.”

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