"There's one thing my old man taught me and it's the best thing he taught me. It wasn't education at college or university â€“ it was commonsense."

-- Marcus Wareing

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“The Crafts which require the most Time intraining or most Ingenuityand Industry must necessarily be the best paid.”

Source : 1730-4 Essay on the Nature of Trade.
“Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.”

Source : "Yanni: Live at the Acropolis". Music, TV Special, 1994.
“I think the more yellows, the more lights, the better. It alerts everybody. I mean, I guess I'm always a little bit afraid when the yellow comes out, we all get out of it, that someone won't notice it, pile into the back of you.”
“I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is.”
“All I know is that once you have children, you put them before anything you're feeling or going through. Today, my daughter walked into the room and I said, 'I love you, baby,' and she said, 'Well, I don't like you,' and I said to my wife, 'The meaner she is to me, the more I love her.'”
“History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.”

Source : Melvyn Bragg (2013). “The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language”, p.51, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.”
“The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.”

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