"There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem From insignificance."

-- W. H. Auden

#Responsibility Quotes #Machines Quotes #Bills Quotes

“When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.”
“From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside.”
“Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health have flown.”
“Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer.”
“If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.”
“Even as a child, when kids my age would watch cartoons, I preferred watching horror flicks. I had watched some Hollywood horror flicks and even films made by the Ramsay brothers by the time I was six! I have always been biased towards that genre.”
“A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.”

Source : Harold J. Laski (2014). “A Grammar of Politics (Works of Harold J. Laski)”, p.157, Routledge
“Ever to confess you're bored means you have no Inner Resources.”

Source : 77 Dream Songs (1964) no. 14

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