Given afair wind,

Given afair wind,
Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.
  

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Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.
A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out
Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.
The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.
All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.
Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.
Remember when feminisit movements were something men gathered on street corners to admire as the girls strolled by
No one is free who does not Lord over himself.
There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.
Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di