"Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing."

-- Bernard Crick

#Manners Quotes #Useful Things Quotes #Rough Quotes

“It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.”

Source : Alexander Crummell, John R. Oldfield, Southern Texts Society (1995). “Civilization and Black Progress: Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South”, p.152, University of Virginia Press
“If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.”
“I was Hannah Montana's mother ... Where did I go wrong?”
“As a parent, the goal is not to get to the other end. It's just simply to protect the children that you're responsible for - and protect their hearts - and, wherever they're headed, to get (them) there safely. That involves patience, time and willingness to listen.”
“Small businesses are seeing huge rate increases every year, and more and more of them are saying they just can't afford to provide coverage. That's part of the reason more than 45 million Americans are now uninsured.”
“To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused.”
“Western countries allow no freedom of expression, which they claim to advocate, with regard to the myth of the massacre of Jews known as the holocaust, and nobody in the West enjoys the freedom of expression to deny it or raise doubts about it. But affronting the sanctities of about 1.5 billion Muslims is permissible in the West.”

Source : "Leader's Address to Air Force Servicemen". www.leader.ir. February 07, 2006.

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