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May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs? ↗

— Charles Dickens

#being #below #common #common people #complaint

But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order. ↗

— Tony Blair

#contagion #crave #economies #ever #fall

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#child #childish #distorted #forth #gives

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#charity #disciples #excitement #few #less

I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards. ↗

— Yani Tseng

#billiards #i #i love #including #love

I love golf. But do you know how I got good at golf? Because of Charles Barkley. I was playing with Charles, Michael Jordan and Roy Green, and Charles was talking so much trash. On every shot, he was talking trash. So I left the tournament, and I went and practiced for a year and half. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#charles #do you know #every #golf #good

But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person. ↗

— Tony Blair

#essentially #i #i always #people #person

Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will. ↗

— Tony Blair

#act #community #conflict #default #disarmament

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music. ↗

— Tony Blair

#classical music #every #feel #graduate #i

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics. ↗

— Tony Blair

#commentators #cynics #human #human progress #never