"All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs."

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Source : 1977 Joseph Chamberlain.

Enoch Powell

#Cutting Quotes #Political Quotes #Affair Quotes

“At one time, MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated.”
“One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House of Intellect and its Hegelian/Bergsonian contrast between rigidified "intellect" and always-growing "intelligence." This fundamentally Hegelian distinction, needless to say, cuts to the quick of the contrast between Platonic and Aristotelian forms of philosophy.”
“Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together.”
“When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for.”
“Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest of us navigate the tricky waters of jazz improvisation.”
“Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored”
“It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.”
“He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didnâ€™t work anymore. In fact, theyâ€™d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the worldâ€™s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.”

Source : Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.132, Penguin

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