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Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.
— William Beveridge
The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
— William Beveridge
Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
— Saint Francis De Sales
A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!
— William Beveridge
for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.
— William Beveridge
I have spent most of my life most happily making plans for others to carry out.
— William Beveridge
I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.
— William Beveridge
I do mind some of the intrusions on privacy.
— Mary Archer
Love is God's essence; Power but his attribute: therefore is his love greater than his power.
— Richard B. Garnett
Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
— William Beveridge
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
— Wendy Wasserstein
Life is short enough, there is nothing worth here to take your life, and those things we do gain can never be taken to our grave.
— Anthony Liccione
The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the de e to lead anyone.
— William Beveridge
There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude.
— William Beveridge
It's not an Arab Spring, it's a European Spring.
— Ibrahim Ibrahim
No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.
— William Beveridge
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
— William Beveridge
Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.
— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.
— William Beveridge
Paradoxical as it may at first appear, the fact is that, as W. H. George has said, scientific research is an art, not a science.
— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.
— William Beveridge
The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.
— William Beveridge
Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.
— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
I wonder what disgusts you more, the fact that I'm a demon, or the fact that when I touch you, it doesn't matter.
— Larissa Ione