"By international standards, many of the U.K.'s policies for civil society are exemplary. However, there are concerns about constraints on civil liberties - particularly restrictions on free assembly and about the rising tide of everyday regulation has seriously impeded community activity - from organising street parties to helping children."

-- Geoff Mulgan

#Children Quotes #Party Quotes #Community Quotes

“I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.”

Source : "Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions" by Adrian Searle, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2010.
“I have had heart surgery three times, so I know what it was like to have pins and needles stuck in you.”
“You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.”
“Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.”
“There was a time when Istanbul was one of the safest cities in the world, because people were afraid of the police. People are no longer as afraid of the police as they used to be. Mugging used to be almost unknown; now everybody is afraid of mugging. In that sense, the downside of liberalization is already being felt in Turkey. And of course some people are afraid of Kurdish ethno-terrorism, which worries Turks very much more than the religious sort.”
“Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.”
“Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.”

Source : "Trading cards profile a geek a week for an entire year" by Ann Hoevel, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2010.
“I want my sex to claim nothing from their brethren but what their brethren may justly claim from them.”

Source : Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.127

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