"Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand"

-- Mitch Daniels

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“What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before. Since the cost of fertilizer, relative to the resultant gain in crop sales, is lower than that of any other economic input, and since the Land Bank pays the farmer for acreage not in crops, the new technology pays him well. The cost-in environmental degradation-is borne by his neighbors in town who find their water polluted. The new technology is an economic success-but only because it is an ecological failure.”
“Abide with me; fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide; When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, O, abide with me. Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day; Earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass away; Change and decay in all around I see; O Thou, who changest not, abide with me.”

Source : Henry Francis Lyte (1868). “Miscellaneous Poems”, p.297
“To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.”

Source : Margaret Oliphant (2014). “Miss Marjoribanks”, p.131, The Floating Press
“People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.”
“In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin Press for reissuing several works by Stefan Zweig, a brilliant Austrian writer whose work brings to mind that of his compatriot Joseph Roth... these fictions are a treat of prewar European literature”
“As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.”
“My own apathy is bone chilling.”

Source : Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.33, Counterpoint Press
“I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred”

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