“American Christianity did not undergo the church-emptying declines of European Christianity. Its perspective was similar to that of Mother Teresa, who in 1988 said, “Why should we care about the Earth when our duty is to the poor and the… — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share Image
“Slackers were not well dressed, because there was no reason to dress smartly. Their uniform was old jeans, Converse trainers and warm, practical lumberjack… — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share
“and they had the suitcase with them. "Come on, we're going to do it now", said Drummond. Reid asked why. "There's just a time… — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share
“The pre-Thatcher state had functioned on the understanding that there was such a thing as society. Governments on both sides of the Atlantic had… — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share
“There was no such thing as a straight line until mathematicians invented one.” — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share
“The great German physicist Max Planck had been advised by his lecturer, the marvellously named Philipp von Jolly, not to pursue the study of… — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share
“American Christianity did not undergo the church-emptying declines of European Christianity. Its perspective was similar to that of Mother Teresa, who in 1988 said,… — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share
“Greer recognised that the direction the sexual revolution was taking was not in the interests of women. “Sex must be rescued from the traffic… — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share
“As the old Russian joke goes, capitalism was the exploitation of man by man, whereas communism was the reverse.” — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share
“The initial shooting that led to the conflict was itself a farce. The assassin in question was a Yugoslav nationalist named Gavrilo Princip. He… — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share
