"I suppose we all tend to remember only……" — Bernard Levin
"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."
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11 Quotes by Bernard Levin
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Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why,…
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In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are…
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No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
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The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large.
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Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of…
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If we expected self-reliance of family groups, if we expected hardiness and resilience and initiative on the part of individuals,…
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The less the power, the greater the desire to exercise it.
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Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.
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Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British…
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What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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