"The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man."

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Source : "Social Insurance and Allied Services". The "Beveridge Report" by William Beveridge (Part 7), November 1942.

William Beveridge

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“A little scorn is alluring.”
“The first one I actually met was George Harrison.”
“I keep thinking of the gifts of my own upbringing, which I once took for granted: I can read any book I choose and comprehend it. I can write a complete sentence and punctuate it correctly. If I need help, I can call on judges, attorneys, educators, ministers. I wonder what I would be like if I had grown up without such protections and supports. What cracks would have turned up in my character?”
“I’m not a gun owner and, as I think as is the case for the more than half the people in the country who also aren’t gun owners, that means that for me guns are alien. In the current rhetorical climate people seem not to want to say: I think guns are kind of scary and don’t want to be around them.”
“Your child will live a life ten years younger than you because of the landscape of food that we've built around them.”
“The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.”

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“Three men at McAlester State Penitentiary had larger penises than Lamar Pye, but all were black and therefore, by Lamar's own figuring, hardly human at all.”
“Eat well, sleep and laugh. When you laugh, the lines go up instead of down.”

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