Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.


Harold D. Lasswell

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Meditate on me either with form or without form, that is pure bliss.
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Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgment.
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Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.
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Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
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Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.
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The features of character are carved out of adversity.
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Be grateful for every moment and every breath.
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profound...
HAROLD BLOOM
Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage eve...
HAROLD BLOOM
The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.
HAROLD BLOOM
Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overh...
HAROLD BLOOM
But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we h...
HAROLD BLOOM
Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
HAROLD BLOOM
So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets h...
HAROLD ACTON
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
HAROLD KUSHNER
The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and ...
HAROLD PINTER
We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do...
HAROLD MACMILLAN
A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this...
HAROLD MACMILLAN
My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel...
GALE HAROLD
I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
GALE HAROLD
You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally availa...
GALE HAROLD
You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
GALE HAROLD
Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. ...
GALE HAROLD
My interests are not really with television, per se.
GALE HAROLD
I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
GALE HAROLD
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in Londo...
HAROLD PINTER
At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.
HAROLD MACMILLAN
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
HAROLD GENEEN
According to the myth, Prometheus steal fire to free us; Iago steals us as fresh fodder for the fire...
HAROLD BLOOM
O gentle vision in the dawn:
My spirit over faint cool water glides,
Child of the day,
HAROLD MONRO