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Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable! ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

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We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#government #houses #jobs #learning #responsibility

I'm not an actress. I just have to be myself. ↗

— Angel Carter

#i #just #myself

It was all Mrs. Bumble. She would do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain that his partner had left the room. That is no excuse," returned Mr. Brownlow. "You were present on the occasion of the destruction of these trinkets, and, indeed, are the more guilty of the two, in the eye of the law; for the law supposes that your wife acts under your direction." If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass — a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience — by experience. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#funny #husbands #law #marriage #matrimony

Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society. ↗

— Delphine de Girardin

#being #families #freedom #generously #harmonious

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#beautiful #because #go #handsome #much

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman. ↗

— George Gissing

#buy #cheerful #hours #i #make

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#always #beautiful #beauty #come #own

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time. ↗

— George Gissing

#get #money #precious #proverb #says

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

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