R H Tawney Quotes

#1. A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of outraged human nature, it must satisfy criteria which are not purely economic.

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#2. He shook his head,'Fuck, you say such fucking weird things.'
'Is that still your favourite word?' asked Isola interestedly, 'I like "verisimilitude". Tolkein said the most beautiful English phrase is "cellar door",

Allyse Near

#3. Freedom for the pike is death for the minnows.

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#4. Carlos Tevez's English should be better than what it is

Graham Taylor

#5. If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.

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#6. A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.

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#7. And was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than half a century of political democracy, is still the characteristic and odious vice of the Englishman.

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#8. Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#9. When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

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#10. Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.

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#11. Post fast on good news or bad. Someone say something bad about your product? Link to it - before the second or third site does - and answer its claims as best you can.

Robert Scoble

#12. By a kind of happy pre-established harmony, such as a later age discovered between the needs of society and the self-interest of the individual, success in business is in itself almost a sign of spiritual grace, for it is a proof that a man has laboured faithfully in his vocation.

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#13. The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

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#14. One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

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#15. Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.

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#16. As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.

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#17. Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.

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#18. I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.

Alex Van Halen

#19. I want to be violated by insight.

Aimee Bender

#20. It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.

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#21. One of the things that make community colleges so special is they do not pick and choose their students - they work with all students.

Jill Biden

#22. Be careful, little girl. Or else the big, bad wolf might just change his mind and decide to eat you after all.

Tracy Anne Warren

#23. Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his contempt.

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#24. The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.

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#25. Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

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#26. An erring colleague is not an Amalkite to be smitten hip and thigh.

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