E. P. Thompson quote: "Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits."

The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be r...
E. P. THOMPSON

The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a socie...
E. P. THOMPSON

I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I t...
E. P. THOMPSON

You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the labor...
E. P. THOMPSON

There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.
E. P. THOMPSON

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much soo...
E. P. THOMPSON

I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find polit...
E. P. THOMPSON

I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.
E. P. THOMPSON

The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.
E. P. THOMPSON

I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.
E. P. THOMPSON

I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming...
E. P. THOMPSON

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
E. P. THOMPSON

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
JOSEPH P. THOMPSON

Women are happier in the love they inspire than in that which they feel; men are just the contrary
E. P. BEAUCHENE

The very instant man developed thought and reason also marks the precise moment man sought ways to f...
JOSHUA E. THOMPSON

It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapid...
MARTIN E. P. SELIGMAN

The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water. He found ...
MARTIN E. P. SELIGMAN

All models are wrong; some models are useful
GEORGE E. P. BOX

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS

Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS

who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS

The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS

and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS

next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS

he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS

and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
Thats not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS

As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government a...
P. SATHASIVAM

If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take...
P. CHIDAMBARAM

I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are a...
P. CHIDAMBARAM

When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union ...
P. CHIDAMBARAM

Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a commi...
P. CHIDAMBARAM

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

Police can only act on intelligence.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the po...
P. CHIDAMBARAM

Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That do...
P. CHIDAMBARAM

People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is...
P. CHIDAMBARAM

People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst ...
P. CHIDAMBARAM

I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a bu...
P. CHIDAMBARAM

It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the deve...
P. CHIDAMBARAM

Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

The concept of a Nash equilibrium n-tuple is perhaps the most important idea in noncooperative game ...
P. ORDESHOOK

Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are lev...
P. CHIDAMBARAM

Carey's had though times as well, so between the two of us, it's perfect
P!NK

My mum and I have an incredible friendship now after a mixture of pain, honesty, unconditional love ...
P!NK

I can turn heartbreak into songs that help other people
P!NK

Independence is a very subjective assessment.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of t...
P. SATHASIVAM

Television is not like making records. I wanna tell all you kids, do not try this at home, 'caus...
MASTER P

The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.
P. GODWIN

Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light.
STORM P

When your looking for the love you thought you had for someone and it starts to become too difficult...
JASHON P

Love is about giving, about caring for the other person's welfare. Love is treating someone, in the ...
A. P.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived
P. BOURGET

...music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence.
A. P.

I feel pretty sure I know why the dinosaurs went extinct. They were waiting for Sam to pick out a ce...
P. ANASTASIA

Cry in love, But never cry after breakup, It will cry your life.
PRASHANT P

If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a bo...
MASTER P

So what! I'm still a rockstar, I got my rock moves, and I don't need you!
P!NK

Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money.
P. SAINATH

Denying the poor access to knowledge goes back a long way. The ancient Smriti political and legal sy...
P. SAINATH

Too often, poverty and deprivation get covered as events. That is, when some disaster strikes, when ...
P. SAINATH

The general who is able to persuade his forces that there is victory, even where there seems to be d...
H. E. E. HAYES

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old an...
DOROTHY THOMPSON

Fashion is a funny thing to talk about. I think what you wear is definitely an extension of you, but...
TESSA THOMPSON

In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.
LEA THOMPSON

When Elvis came out on stage, it became electric. And the way people responded to him was such that,...
LINDA THOMPSON

Why did I break up with Elvis? It was difficult to watch his slow demise.
LINDA THOMPSON

I never felt more loved than when I was with Elvis.
LINDA THOMPSON

I have four chickens. I have four laying hens. And I have 50 fruit trees. I make apricot and plum ja...
LINDA THOMPSON

Elvis was sincere, and he was - he was so loyal. And he was so homespun. He loved his mother, he lov...
LINDA THOMPSON

As life has a way of unfolding as it is meant to, I have learned to trust life.
LINDA THOMPSON

I have fabulous sons, but unfortunately, they both have that thrill-seeker gene - bigger, higher, fa...
LINDA THOMPSON

We only do harm to ourselves when we harbor resentment and vitriol toward another. I do believe that...
LINDA THOMPSON

People get a little sidelined thinking that fame and fortune is going to bring them happiness, peace...
LINDA THOMPSON

Just try to do the right thing, and that's immediate karma: 'I feel good about myself.'
LINDA THOMPSON

If I have one thing on in a week, I find it very difficult to get back to work that week. I need a l...
KATE THOMPSON

I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of...
KATE THOMPSON

I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play t...
KATE THOMPSON

I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good ...
KATE THOMPSON

I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
KATE THOMPSON

My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've w...
KATE THOMPSON

Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philos...
KATE THOMPSON

Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. Th...
KATE THOMPSON

What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are s...
KATE THOMPSON

What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolte...
KATE THOMPSON

I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at En...
KATE THOMPSON

There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at...
KATE THOMPSON

I am political. But not politically active. I'm not my dad. I'll never write polemic, as he ...
KATE THOMPSON

I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination...
KATE THOMPSON

My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.
KATE THOMPSON

I've always felt a bit hard done by in England - you know, I've won the Bisto three times in...
KATE THOMPSON

Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give...
KATE THOMPSON

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. Th...
KATE THOMPSON

You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it's not very int...
KATE THOMPSON

When in doubt, use brute force.
KEN THOMPSON

I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Citi...
CLIVE THOMPSON

I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. A...
JIM THOMPSON

Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of br...
SCOTT THOMPSON

I will probably hear more in the next day or so. His last tests showed an improvement and he has inc...
ALAN THOMPSON

This job is well-suited for people who want to work hard. Some of the people who work here just love...
ALAN THOMPSON

I'm taking video evidence of a number of incidents over the last two years which happened at the Oly...
ALAN THOMPSON

(We're) in such a tight budget - like we have had every year, ... (If) you can increase reserves at ...
ALAN THOMPSON

Celtic is one of the world's biggest clubs and this agreement sets the seal on an amazing month for ...
ALAN THOMPSON

Congratulations on holding the line this year, ... We appreciate the efforts your department has had...
ALAN THOMPSON

I think sometimes people think, 'We'll leave it for Grant to do'.
ALAN THOMPSON

I think some of the guys prepared poorly,
ALAN THOMPSON

Had he been in a different era, he would have been the one, and this time he has been able to stand ...
ALAN THOMPSON

And they have got an ability to coach and an ability to swim. Even in the old days - whatever they w...
ALAN THOMPSON

In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletic...
DALEY THOMPSON

We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.
DALEY THOMPSON

But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
DALEY THOMPSON

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be th...
DALEY THOMPSON

I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after...
DALEY THOMPSON

Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to cat...
DALEY THOMPSON

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.
DALEY THOMPSON

Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power ...
DALEY THOMPSON

I am only about winning and getting better.
DALEY THOMPSON

I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.
DALEY THOMPSON

Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my care...
DALEY THOMPSON

Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything...
DALEY THOMPSON

Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.
DALEY THOMPSON

Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.

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Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.

E. P. Thompson

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