#ate

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#board #called #deeper #develop #greater

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen. ↗

— Maimonides

#books #consider #deceive #hesitate #his

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty. ↗

— Maimonides

#charity #poverty #preventing

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#curious #difficulties #idiosyncrasies #man #pleasure

Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#depends #greater #gulf #happiness #law

The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#celebrated #code #ends #jurisprudence #known

It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics , to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state. ↗

— John Major

#back #basics #consideration #core #core values

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot. ↗

— John Major

#authentic #back #conservative #conventional #course

September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home in your own territory by terrorist on this scale. ↗

— John Major

#first #first time #had #hit #home

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change. ↗

— John Major

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