Bernard Levin Quotes

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• Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
• In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.
• No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
• The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large.
• Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and at times noisy)…
• If we expected self-reliance of family groups, if we expected hardiness and resilience and initiative on the part of individuals, and if we rewarded initiative…
• I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.
• The less the power, the greater the desire to exercise it.
• Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.
• Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else…
• What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a…

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