"A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants."

-- Alexander Pope

#Family Quotes #Commonwealth Quotes

“The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.”

Source : "Armistead Maupin: San Francisco's chronicler calls time on his saga" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2014.
“SÃ¬ is my tribute to modern femininity, an irresistible combination of grace, strength and independent spirit.”
“We easily fall into the habit of accepting compressed statements which save us from the trouble of thinking. Thus arises what I shall call 'Potted Thinking'.”

Source : "Thinking to Some Purpose". Book by Susan Stebbing, p. 63, 1939.
“I am afraid that I do not believe that any body of men can have enough knowledge of the past, the present and the future to establish "development priorities" which presumably means procuring some developments as being good and prohibiting others as being bad.”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 212), March 27, 1968.
“A grandma is old on the outside and young on the inside.”
“To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence.”
“Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.”
“Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior.”

Source : Radio interview on Radio Alice (KLLC 97.3),

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