"And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow."

-- Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

#People Quotes #Demand Quotes #Height Quotes

“The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.”

Source : "Old masters and new friends" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2003.
“I was actually very surprised, and I told myself wow, I want to fight this guy.”
“The orchid is Mother Nature's masterpiece.”
“If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.”

Source : Interview with Angela Pneuman, www.believermag.com. October 2005.
“The fifties were pretty rebellious, a pretty rebellious period, around that time. And it was preceding the whole zoot suit thing which I think really contributed to a lot of anxiety, to a lot of frustration, a lot of blaming. And it just like boom, it was very destructive for us as a people, that right away put us on like we had to defend ourselves on every level, every moment. We seemed like we always had to be on guard.”
“America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.”

Source : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan
“Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.”
“The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.”

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