"It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure."

-- William Butler Yeats

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“I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'”
“In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.”
“You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.”
“Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.”

Source : "Tahar Rahim: 'Not everybody is this crazy'". Interview with Henry Barnes, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2013.
“White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. Itâ€™s a form of theatrical empathy thatâ€™s socially and financially rewarded. When you learn to say and perhaps even believe the right things about race, doors are opened for you. When you say the wrong thing, those doors slam shut. Then, the gossips and church ladies will shame you publicly, demand that you be fired from your job, and use every avenue available to them to coerce a confession, a public apology and a staged conversion that contributes to their progressive narrative.”
“Residues arise... naturally in several branches of analysis... Their consideration provides simple and easy-to-use methods, which are applicable to a large number of diverse questions, and some new results...”

Source : "Oeuvres completes". Book by Augustin-Louis Cauchy (Serie 2, Tome 6, "Sur un nouveau genre de calcul analogue au Calcul infinitésimal", pp. 23-37, translated), 1826.
“I do not believe there is a long-term future for the privately rented sector in its present form.”

Source : Speech in Eastbourne, November 20, 1975.
“When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.”

Source : "The School as a Home for the Mind : Creating Mindful Curriculum, Instruction, and Dialogue" by Arthur L. Costa, (p. 91), 2007.

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