To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher’s family.
Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It’s important for a woman to be able to control her finances.
Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
America’s largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner.
If you’re going to have a public subsidy to education, vouchers are clearly a better way of delivering it. They should result in some loosening up and privatization of the government school system.
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