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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

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C. Northcote Parkinson
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Category: Politics

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
  • 2. Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
  • 3. There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning rolling over in a tractor and old age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I wore my first pair of Louboutins during this press tour. It was absolutely amazing they weren't heels they were little shoes but they were velvet and they were blue.
  • 2. I know that my grandfather is 92 years old. And he has seen this country evolve in amazing ways. He looks at South Carolina and he says wow what an amazing state that we have the blessing to live within because of the evolution.
  • 3. If there was an observer on Mars they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.
  • 2. The opposite of anger is not calmness its empathy.
  • 3. In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad who was very racist didn't like that at all. And he told her one time 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'

4 Anniversary

  • 1. See the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it the bitter honesty is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody – 'You must live life this way' – and these guys were bored.
  • 2. Marriage is the most natural state of man and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
  • 3. There is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture is a visual art and the buildings speak for themselves.
  • 2. I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
  • 3. The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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