"Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull."

-- Alan Bennett

#Hull Quotes #Credit Quotes #Moral Quotes

“The profit of the one is the profit of the other.”
“It is not too much to say that next after the passion to learn there is no quality so indispensable to the successful prosecutionof science as imagination. Find me a people whose early medicine is not mixed up with magic and incantations, and I will find you a people devoid of all scientific ability.”
“There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.”
“Many foreigners have asked me how we made the Danish style. And I've answered that it...was rather a continuous process of purification, and for me of simplification, to cut down to the simplest possible elements of four legs, a seat and combined top rail and arm rest.”
“The villainous sun and the starved bank did not seem relatedâ€”yet.”

Source : Timothy Egan (2006). “The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.”
“Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.”
“I'll tell you what's fun - finding the right stewardess and turning her upside down in the back of a plane.”

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