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I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude. ”
Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day! ”
The wrong people will do everything in their power to guarantee that the wrong political climate will continue. It seems, then, that the wrong people ensure the wrong political climate and the wrong political climate ensures the wrong people. How then to break free of this vicious circle? ”
As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise? ”
Even with the right political climate, would the wrong people refrain from doing the wrong thing? ”
Expressing anger is a form of public littering. ”
Why shouldn't a child look to want to be a political figure, to change our nation, to lead us the right directions? ”
There are a lot of issues that I hope we deal with at some point that we haven't up to now, for various reasons. Some technical, and some more political. ”
Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world. ”
What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the other supplies facts, and the British are traditionally empiricists so they/we have a resistance to theory and to theoreticians playing too prominent a role in public life. ”