They just didn't have the sense of the strength of their vote. Just thought it wasn't necessary.

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.

Julie Burchill

The coward sneaks to death the brave live on.

George Sewell

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

John Keats

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

George Eliot

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Thomas Hobbes

It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

Edmund Burke, Works, vol. II, p.

I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.

Steven Wright

All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

Jalal Talabani

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

Henry David Thoreau

Today's news was published by word of mouth in the streets of ancient Athens.

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