#orr

As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment. ↗

— Kamal Ahmed

#behaviour #being #believe #fed #genuine

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian. ↗

— Ama Ata Aidoo

#artist #authoritarianism #corruption #embarrass #expose

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it. ↗

— William R. Alger

#appreciate #closely #correctly #created #exercise

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#greater #happiness #misery #recall #sorrow

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#bed #child #corrupting #corruption #father

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about. ↗

— George Allen, Sr.

#about #forget #forget the past #future #give

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#take #thoughts #today #tomorrow #where

I can't spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I've got to focus on the mission. ↗

— John R. Allen

#focus #got #home #i #lot

I'm ordinarily pretty correct in what I say. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#i #ordinarily #pretty #say

These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things. ↗

— Tom Allen

#been #bills #borrowing #cuts #essentially