"It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket."

-- Arthur Smith

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“Little eyes must be good-tempered or they are ruined. They have no other resource. But this will beautify them enough. They are made for laughing, and, should do their duty.”
“One of the most extraordinary examples in recent decades [of unitary visions of constitutional enterprise] is found in a book called "Takings"... Epstein makes an extremely clever but stunningly reductionist argument that the whole Constitution is really designed to protect private property... Can a constitution reflecting as diverse an array of visions and aspirations as ours really be reducible to such as sadly single-minded vision as that?”
“Artists are often having very similar conversations across the various disciplines through which they choose to excel, but you rarely see them exist in the same pages or spaces.”
“Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn.”

Source : James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1866). “The Poetical Works of James Gates Percival: With a Biographical Sketch”, p.170
“My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.”
“The most difficult secret for a man to keep is the opinion he has of himself.”
“Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.”

Source : ABC Radio "AM" program, August 25, 1995.
“But politicians who talk about failed policies are just blowing smoke. Government policies succeed in doing exactly what they are supposed to do: channeling resources bilked from the general public to politically organized and influential interests groups.”

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