"The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years."

-- Aneurin Bevan

#Years Quotes #Gentleman Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.”
“Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.”

Source : "The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought". Book by Thomas S. Kuhn, 1957.
“I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.”
“When you dream big, you eventually attract big things.”
“[After her 18-day disappearance in 1974:] I love my husband very, very much, but he didn't ask me when he ran for mayor and he didn't consult me about running for governor. It would be nice to be asked. ... You know, I've been my mother's daughter, my father's daughter, the wife of my husband, the mother of my six children, and grandmother to my eleven grandchildren, but I have never been me. But I am now because I went away. I am a changed woman.”
“I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.”
“A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill?”
“Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when it is composing its thoughts in oral form. More than any other single invention writing has transformed human consciousness.”

Source : Walter J. Ong (2013). “Orality and Literacy”, p.77, Routledge

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