"Politics of all sorts, I confess, are far beyond my limited powers of comprehension. Those of this country as far as I have been able to observe, resolve themselves into two great motives. The aristocratic desire of elevation and separation, and the democratic desire of demolishing and levelling."

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Source : Fanny Kemble (1835). “Journal of a Residence in America”, p.95

Fanny Kemble

#Country Quotes #Two Quotes #Desire Quotes

“The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper.”
“My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.”
“Don't you think I would be a worthy replacement for you, Madam Prime Minister? You have a long nose. So have I. But I don't poke my nose into other people's affairs.”

Source : "Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw" by Vinod Saighal, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2008.
“Why can't fellows be allowed to do what they like when they like and as they like, instead of other fellows sitting on banks and watching them all the time and making remarks and poetry and things about them?”
“There is only one standard - a global standard. Be consistent, operate at 100% every single time you're given an opportunity.”
“I didn’t think any biography could do justice to one of the few honest-to-goodness geniuses of our time, a walking paradox who wore a cloak of complexity and elusiveness, but Lisa Rogak has done an exemplary job of it.”
“There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps.”
“In an ever changing world, you never learn it all, even if you keep growing into your 90s.”

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