"With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a treasury more interested in surtax relief than national survival. [Responding to an earlier statement by British Science Minister, Lord Hailsham, that British scientists were being recruited by the U.S.]"

-- Harold Wilson

#Struggle Quotes #Survival Quotes #Research Quotes

“We have to "walk the walk" not just "talk the talk".”

Source : Paul Kivel (2013). “Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice Ð 3rd Edition”, p.4, New Society Publishers
“We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.”
“Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense...”
“Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.”
“Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.”
“I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.”

Source : "Chris Ofili: 'I wander deep into the forest - where it's scary'" by Mark Hudson, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 25, 2010.
“History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.”
“Liar! Liar!" shrieked suddenly from the now open trap door. Miracle Max whirled. "Back, Witch--" he commanded. "I'm not a witch, I'm your wife--" she was advancing on him now, an ancient tiny fury--"and after what you've just done I don't think I want to be that any more--”

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