"The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him."

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Source : Speech, 8 Sept. 1927, in Report of Proceedings of the Trades Union Congress (1927) p. 298

Ernest Bevin

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“Writers are given one great story to tell their story. Iâ€™m telling my story as a political document.”
“What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.”
“I had been thinking about the question, "What do I love about America?" I kept coming back to this idea of community and home, which already obsessed me in my work. But I couldn't quite figure out how to lead beyond my immediate experience. Then I was just standing at the kitchen sink, and I watched the sun rise, and I thought, "How many hundreds of thousands of people are watching the same sun rise right now?" I just knew the poem would go from that line.”

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“There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.”
“I'm the kind of a player who, if you give me something good to hit, I'm going to swing at it. Otherwise, there's nothing else you can do.”
“Resentment, anger, frustration, worry, disappointment-negative emotional states, justified or not, take a toll on your heart, brain and body. Don't let justified emotions rob your health and well-being.”
“We don't wear sequins because we think we're great. We wear them because we think sequins are great.”
“There is, moreover, very little sense in preventing young people from giving expression to their ideas on the pretext that they have less experience than have older persons. There are many who may live a thousand years without encountering experience of any value. It could only be in a society of persons equally gifted that such an idea could have any meaning.”

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