"I voted against Gerald Nabarro in my first general election, but my defiance made no difference. If you had put a Conservative rosette on a mustachioed hamster, it would have been elected."

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Source : Jeremy Paxman (2002). “The political animal: an anatomy”

Jeremy Paxman

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“What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.”
“Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.”
“I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing research, I would write books that I would have liked to have read as a child. So whenever I write, I imagine myself, as a youth, reading my books, being thrilled by the incredible advances being made in physics and science.”
“The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.”
“As long as you're open-minded you can learn stuff from anyone.”
“The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape”

Source : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”
“There are moments when i wish i could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but i have a feeling that if i did, the joy would be gone as well. So i take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever i can.”
“Be aware that the economy is not meant to control us ... we are meant to control the economy.”

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