"Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps."

-- Julie Christie

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“Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force. And this unintelligence of its objectives sets its stamp on its supporters also and renders them stupid and brutal, even when they were originally endowed with the best of talents. One who is constantly striving to force everything into a mechanical order at last becomes a machine himself and loses all human feeling.”

Source : "Anarcho-Syndicalism" by Rudolf Rocker, (Ch. 1), 1938.
“We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy is now pitifully small and has been reduced in size by the current Government, seeking economies to finance its social programmes. Fine while there is no threat to our security. But what use would schools and hospitals be if we could not protect our imports?”
“If you take any flower you please and look it over and turn it about and smell it and feel it and try to find out all its little secrets, not of flower only but of leaf, bud and stem as well, you will discover many wonderful things. This is how you make friends with plants, and very good friends you will find them to the end of our lives.”
“I like writing about friends.”
“When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there.”
“When you attain the control of the internal direction of your attention, you will no longer stand in shallow water but will launch out into the deep of life.”
“Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong.”

Source : William Whewell (1846). “Lectures on Systematic Morality Delivered in Lent Term, 1846”, p.144, London, J. W. Parker
“The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.”

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