"One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer and the next minute I was in parliament."

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David Lang

“Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.”
“Why, just a couple of economic seasons ago, was idle cash considered an indication of bad management or lazy management? Because it meant that management didn't have this money out at work ... Now look. Presto! A new fashion! Cash is back in! Denigrating liquidity has dropped quicker than hemlines. A management is now saluted if it has some cash, some liquidity, doesn't have to go to the money market at huge interest rates to get the wherewithal to keep going and growing. Along with Ben Franklin, my father and your father would understand and applaud this new economic fashion ....”
“In recent years a new International System has been developing, oriented toward the establishment of norms and principles of universal jurisdiction, above national sovereignty, in the areas of what is called the New Agenda...we have to confront ..... what I dare to call the Anglo-Saxon prejudice against the establishment of supra-national organizations.”
“Do not mix temporary difficulties with real problems.”
“Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.”
“Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.”
“I think most Americans would agree people should be treated equally and everyone ought to be able to pursue a fulfilling life with the ones they love.”

Source : "I Support Marriage Equality" by Mark Udall, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 1, 2011.
“When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.”

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