"That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life."

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Source : Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.163, Cambridge University Press

Beatrice Webb

#Political Quotes #Found Quotes #Drifting Quotes

“And yes, there are things I want to keep, that I like around me - especially when there's very little left. I just want to keep those little bits of reminders of my past. There are certain drawings from the '60s; certain little paintings from the '60s that I keep.”
“Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda.”
“Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal.”
“I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.”
“The Future of Money: Creating New Wealth, Work, and a Wiser World”

Source : Gwendolyn Hallsmith, Bernard Lietaer (2011). “Creating Wealth: Growing Local Economies with Local Currencies”, p.243, New Society Publishers
“Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement.”

Source : Dave Hickey (2012). “The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded”, p.30, University of Chicago Press
“Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.”
“Something the committee had not done in 50 years. Jeff Sessions is now the Chairman of the Committee that rejected him.”

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