"Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology"

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Source : The Daily Herald, 1956.

Michael Foot

#Apology Quotes #Socialism Quotes #Fantastic Quotes

“2015 was really the hardest and the best year of my life. I learned a lot. I went through a lot of personal heartbreak, loss, and turmoil. I had to find my way out of sinking under the weight of it and it was the hardest thing I had to do.”

Source : Source: www.teenvogue.com
“For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow sherbet and Neapolitan ice cream. The mounds, some 100 feet tall, sprout delicate treelike gorgonians that sift currents for a plankton meal. Fish, worms and other creatures dart or crawl in every crevice. This description could apply to thousands of coral reefs in shallow, sun-streaked tropical waters from Australia to the Bahamas. But this is the Sula Ridge, 1,000 feet down in frigid darkness on the continental shelf 100 miles off Norway's coast.”
“I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.”

Source : John Barrowman (2009). “Anything Goes: The Autobiography”, p.6, Michael O'Mara Books
“I like to play golf. I like to shoot hoops.”
“The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.”
“There's no operation where you can have your anger cut out. But if you work on yourself, as you get better, you'll be more capable of seeing others as flawed human beings. That makes it easier to forgive.”
“[Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV.”
“Vietnam is no longer a war, it's a country. I think that that's very important to understand. And the Vietnamese - last time a poll was taken, somewhere above 80 percent of Vietnamese people have a very positive outlook towards the United States.”

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