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We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.


James Buchan


#crown #drama #earned #frets #his

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.


John Buchan


#barbarism #bring #civilization #division #earth

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.


Pearl S. Buck


#death #eat #hope #slowly #starve

I've already created my own thing.


Jeff Buckley


#created #i #my own #own #thing

The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.


William F. Buckley, Jr.


#company #confess #desire #does #having

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.


Buddha


#doubt #dreadful #friendships #habit #hurts

An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.


William Labov


#african american #against #american #american children #aspect

If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.


Paul Farmer


#been #big #canary #care #cholera

But let there be no misunderstanding. The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War.


Jim Bunning


#bit #cold #cold war #communism #during

The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War.


Jim Bunning


#bit #cold #cold war #communism #during