"Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery."

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A. J. P. Taylor

#Vices Quotes #Looks Quotes #England Quotes

“What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?”
“If someone praises you with what you are not, they are in essence criticizing you of a deficiency in you.”
“Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.”
“We all experience pain and suffering, but it is not the quintessential nature of life. Just because the earth turns away from the sun and night occurs doesn't mean that the sun isn't always shining. It might be hard to see sometimes, but goodness and divine beauty can always be found if you adjust your vision just right.”
“I wish to state emphatically that I do not believe in any sort of handwork or manipulation on a photographic negative or print.”
“Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ... So long as one sees killing as wrong there is no need to waste time with the deterrent argument, since it would be nonsense to try to prevent a theoretical evil in the future by perpetrating an actual one in the present.”
“I am a big fan of Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller, who have carved a niche for themselves. I think doing different kind of films gives you longevity and the ability to set yourself apart.”
“None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of being immodest, and acting courageously to bring issues of class- especially radical standpoints â€“ into the discourse of blackness is a gesture of militant defiance, one that runs counter to bourgeois insistence that we think of â€œmoneyâ€ in particular and class in general as private matters.”

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