"It is quite clear from what has been said and written that, time after time after time, there has been a conspiracy between the Conservative Front Bench in this House and the inbuilt Conservative majority in the House of Lords to defeat legislation that has passed through the House of Commons...I warn the House of Lords of the consequences...it is our strong view that the House of Lords should recall that its role is not that of a wrecking chamber, but of a revising chamber. In recent weeks, it has been wrecking legislation passed by this House."

Source : James Callaghan's speech on economic policy in the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. November 9, 1976.

James Callaghan

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“I have this theory that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only idea we'll ever have. Maybe if we are surrounded in beauty, one day we will become what we see. Anyone can start a conflict. It's harder yet to disregard it. I'd rather see the world from another angle. We are everyday angels...”
“Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth”

Source : Simon Bolivar's statement made in the last months of his life, occasionally said to be his last words; quoted in Gabriel Garcia Marquez "The General in His Labyrinth" (p. 267), 1990.
“Strive for perfection - never be content with mediocrity. You don't win until you conquer the little flaws. You don't beat these great ones until your form is perfect. This is true in all of life. A flaw in a product can ruin a business. A personal failing, a little one, can ruin a person's life. Don't be content with mediocrity - strive to live up to the greatest within you.”
“One of my interests in music has always been what it means, why it affects us the way it does.”
“I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away.”

Source : "Nothing to Lose". Book by Lee Child, March 24, 2008.
“The onset of bayonets in the hands of the valiant is irresistible.”

Source : John Burgoyne (1860). “Orderly Book of Lieut. Gen. John Burgoyne: From His Entry Into the State of New York Until His Surrender at Saratoga, 16th Oct. 1777 : from the Original Manuscript Deposited at Washington's Head Quarters, Newburgh, N.Y.”, p.3
“I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.”
“When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is surely safe. But when he tries to extend his proposition to everything, though it is much more interesting, it is also much more dangerous. In the transition from one to all, from the specific to the general, mathematics has made its greatest progress, and suffered its most serious setbacks, of which the logical paradoxes constitute the most important part. For, if mathematics is to advance securely and confidently, it must first set its affairs in order at home.”

Source : "Mathematics and the Imagination".

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