"As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound."

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Source : Speech to London Conservatives, 7 Mar. 1961, in The Times 8 Mar. 1961

Harold MacMillan

#Ideas Quotes #Sound Quotes #Usual Quotes

“Most actors and actresses are performative as people.”
“There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking.”

Source : Frederick William Faber (1860). “Spiritual conferences”, p.40
“We are living as if we had three planets' worth of resources to live with rather than just one. We need to cut by about two-thirds our ecological footprint. For that we need one planet farming as well as one planet living - one planet farming which minimises the impact on the environment of food production and consumption, and which maximises its contribution to renewal of the natural environment”
“Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.”
“There are no solutions to life, but there is an experience of wholeness, of bliss, of being, of the deathlessness of the Divine Self, of Silence in all its multifacted, diamond splendor that heals all grief, all wounds, all questions.”
“It is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of love and friendship.”
“The more we feel concern for others and seek their well-being, the more friends we will have and the more welcome we will feel.”
“Prove it. I'll measure your words against your actions, and from that I will determine your worth.”

Source : Jackie Morse Kessler (2011). “Rage”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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