Walter Bagehot Quotes

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

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• The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.

  

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• Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

  

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• Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

  

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• You can't change the market; the market just is.

  

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• I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.

  

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• The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.

  

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• Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

  

  Dan Rather
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• The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

  

  Carl Jung
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• I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.

  

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• Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.

  

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• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

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• A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
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• There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.

  

  Ogden Nash
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• Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.

  

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• To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

  

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• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

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• Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

  

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• 'I wouldn't be involved with it pop music if I wasn't aware that it was going to be a product. I always wanted whatever I did to end up in the high street, no matter what it was, because to me, there isn't anywhere else to go. It's pointless.' source

  

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• Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

  

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• The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.

  

  Boris Johnson
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• Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment.

  

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• Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

  

  Walter Bagehot
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  • Military
  • Impact