"Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. If you find any important figures who really like change, such as Bernard Shaw, Keir Hardie, Lloyd George, Selfridge or Disraeli, you will find that they are not really English at all, but Irish, Scotch, Welsh, American or Jewish. Englishmen make changes, sometimes great changes. But, secretly or openly, they always deplore them."

-- Raymond Postgate

#Scotch Quotes #Important Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“It is odd how one can feel like someone else early in the morning - bigger, cleaner, so much more alive.”

Source : Maureen Daly (2010). “Seventeenth Summer”, p.271, Simon and Schuster
“anyone who used the word hip probably wasn't.”
“We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.”

Source : Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.15, Harper Collins
“Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably. There may be other things in life, but I've been too busy passing my time enjoyably to think very deeply about them.”
“Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.”
“[In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural suggestion to plot the amplitudes logarithmically.”
“Lifeâ€”the way it really isâ€”is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”
“AT&T invented the cellular telephone, but saw no future in it. It takes entrepreneurs, who are angels of destruction, to take advantage of things which the inventor cannot or does not see.”

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