"A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules."

-- Charles Churchill

#School Quotes #Race Quotes #Criticism Quotes

“Mo Udall didn't want the presidency bad enough. He was too sane. He was a marvelous guy, but you had the feeling there was another Udall outside his body watching the candidate Udall who was too extravagant, telling him to cut it out.”
“A rough should have high grass. When you go bowling they don't give you anything for landing in the gutter, do they?”
“Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends.”
“When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some kind of business card that people can link to my name and face. So I did this 'Mad Men Theme Song...With a Twist' music video. I released it just as I moved to L.A.”
“When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection becomes clear: to make people happy, that is what cooking is all about.”

Source : "What It Takes" with Alice Winkler, learningenglish.voanews.com. April 20, 2018.
“Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.”

Source : "The Glenn Beck Program", October 5, 2006.
“For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime. This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.”

Source : Uta Hagen (2009). “Respect for Acting”, p.104, John Wiley & Sons
“Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.”

Source : William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.135

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