"I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone."

-- Nick Clegg

#Thinking Quotes #Government Quotes #Attention Quotes

“The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination.”
“When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.”
“Programmers are expensive. Hardware is cheap.”
“I have learned that everything is an opportunity for spiritual enrichment.”
“Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in love, the piercing knowledge that we ourselves will someday die, and the love of snow are in reality not some sudden events; maybe they were always present. Maybe they never completely vanish, either.”
“I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.”
“Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.”
“Lord Salisbury constitutes himself the spokesman of a class, of the class to which he himself belongs, who'toil not neither do they spin'.”

Source : 1883 Speech, 30 Mar.

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