"People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit.... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective."

-- William Howard Taft

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“If the art is created with the whole person, then the work will come out whole. Education must teach, reach, and vibrate the whole person rather than merely transfer knowledge.”
“People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.”
“Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament.”

Source : "Jerry Hall turns 57! Looking back at her hottest fashions and fierce Texan one-liners" by Lucy Buckland, www.mirror.co.uk. July 02, 2013.
“The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.”
“Even before 2007, this half of a small island was the richest football country on earth. In 2005-2006 the Premiership's total revenue was about Â£1.4bn, 40 per cent more than its nearest rival, Italy's Serie A. That was before take-off. Now foreign television channels are sending so much cash that the Premiership is expected to take in nearly Â£1.8bn this season. Even the team that finishes bottom of the table (Wigan might be a good bet) will get Â£26.8m from TV. That's more than all of Argentine or Belgian football put together.”
“If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.”
“Taking the things people do wrong seriously is part of taking them seriously. Itâ€™s part of letting their actions have weight. Itâ€™s part of letting their actions be actions rather than just indifferent shopping choices; of letting their lives tell a life-story, with consequences, and losses, and gains, rather than just be a flurry of events. Itâ€™s part of letting them be real enough to be worth loving, rather than just attractive or glamorous or pretty or charismatic or cool.”

Source : Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.34, Faber & Faber
“I've only covered a few songs because I feel that if you're not going to go beyond the original artist in some way, then don't disrespect what they created.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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