"The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself."

-- Iris Murdoch

#Good Life Quotes #Requirements Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.”
“Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.”
“But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.”

Source : William Congreve (1706). “The Way of the World: A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's Servants. Written by Mr. Congreve”, p.13
“The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.”
“You cannot exercise much power without gratitude because it is gratitude that keeps you connected with power”

Source : "The Science of Wallace D. Wattles".
“This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her.”

Source : Eva Ibbotson (2008). “A Song for Summer”, p.175, Pan Macmillan
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”
“The industrial world would be a more peaceful place if workers were called in as collaborators in the process of establishing standards and defining shop practices, matters which surely affect their interests and well-being fully as much as they affect those of employers and consumers.”

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