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In the disturbances caused by scarcity of food, the mob goes in search of bread, and the means it employs is generally to wreck the bakeries. This may serve as a symbol of the attitude adopted, on a greater and more complicated scale, by the masses of today towards the civilization by which they are supported? Civilization is not "just here," it is not self-supporting. Jose Ortega y Gasset
So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands. Frederick Pollock
We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each others bodies in every way, night after night. I could love you. I could work, you would not be poor. I would help you. Charlaine Harris
The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature. Olivia Thirlby
Laurent Fabius quote: "Shopkeepers are not bankers."
Shopkeepers are not bankers. Laurent Fabius
I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as the central metaphor that we want to work out from. Because I think literature occupies the same relationship to life that life occupies to death. A book is life with one dimension pulled out of it. And life is something that lacks a dimension which death will give it. I imagine death to be a kind of release into the imagination in the sense that for characters... Terence McKenna
Marilu Henner quote: "Lack of time is a real health killer."
Lack of time is a real health killer. Marilu Henner
Dale Carnegie quote: "if you want to keep happiness , you have to share it !"
if you want to keep happiness , you have to share it ! Dale Carnegie
Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,Yet Grace must still look so. William Shakespeare
I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston. James Spader
Tiger Woods quote: "if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!"
if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser! Tiger Woods
Oliver Goldsmith quote: "Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field..."
Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes. Oliver Goldsmith
I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal. Jacqueline Bisset
Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed. John Pilger
Charles Kennedy quote: "Courage is a peculiar kind of fear."
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. Charles Kennedy