"Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself."

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Source : Kenneth Minogue (2000). “Politics: A Very Short Introduction”, p.13, Oxford Paperbacks

Kenneth Minogue

#Life Is Quotes #Framework Quotes #Human Life Quotes

“You know how you just don't like guys on the other team sometimes? It's funny because growing up I loved Roger (Clemens), loved to watch Roger pitch. Then when I was first in the big leagues and he was for the other team, I hated him.”
“[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.”
“Canada is a live country - live, but not, like the States, kicking.”
“I understand the NBA and the role I play on my team. I know that I have to play a leadership role and do whatever I have to do to win.”
“The gospel which they so greatly needed they would not have; the miracles which Jesus did not always choose to give, they eagerly demanded.”
“Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.”
“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”
“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”

Source : Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field Vol. VII: The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

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