Arthur Balfour Quotes

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• Enthusiasm moves the world.
• It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
• Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
• Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
• He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
• I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
• The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
• I never forgive, but I always forget.
• But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of…
• Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.
• Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may…
• Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have within his reach, in himself…
• And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness…
• I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference
• Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?
• In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness…
• It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.
• Ask with urgency and passion.
• The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain…
• Imperishable moments and immortal deeds, death itself and love stronger than death, will be as though they had never been. The energies of our system…

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