"If life was what you made of it, then it could not be made for you."

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Source : Ferdinand Mount (1991). “Of love and asthma”, Vintage

Ferdinand Mount

#Life Quotes #Made Quotes

“What I mean is I'd rather be a Burt Bacharach figure, where if I did gigs there'd be other people there singing the songs. I just don't want to promote myself as an artist if you like. I've been writing loads and loads of songs and I want to feed them out and produce artists. But I have to do that from a center. There has to be a structure. It has to be from a company that has an image, that has a name.”
“It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.”
“The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we have seen, is to deny the economic basis of social class. After all, you can hardly deride liberals as society's "elite" or present the GOP as the party of the common man if you acknowledge the existence of the corporate world the power that creates the nation's real elite, that dominates its real class system, and that wields the Republican Party as its personal political system.”
“It's magnificent, but it's not war.”

Source : Quoted in Cecil Woodham-Smith, The Reason Why (1953)
“The world was sick, and the ills from which it was suffering were mainly due to the perversion of man, his inability to live at peace with himself. The microbe was no longer the main enemy; science was sufficiently advanced to be able to cope with it admirably. If it were not for such barriers as superstition, ignorance, religious intolerance, misery and poverty.”

Source : "Public health, a progressive science". Monthly Bulletin of the Philippine Health Service, 24, 1948.
“All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.”
“Bring me the sunset in a cup.”
“As long as we rationalize nuclear weapons as "necessary" in order to save American lives, then nuclear weapons will never be gotten rid of.”

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