Simone Weil, The Need for Roots (1949)
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause...
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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause...
No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media, they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost. Robin Renwick, former British ambassador to the United States
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable. John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever (1978)
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change. Dan Quayle, 5/22/89
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things. Dan Quayle, 11/30/88
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
The only reward for love is the experience of loving. John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim
Art is never finished, only abandoned. Leonardo DaVinci, (maybe)