Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield quotes
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“The inevitability of gradualness.”
-- Sidney Webb, 1st Baron PassfieldSource : Presidential address to annual conference of Labor Party, 26 June 1923
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“Marriage is the wastebasket for human emotions.”
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“One and one make 2. But if you bring 1 and 1 close together they make 11.”
-- Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield
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“You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. You can't be detached and effective.”
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“s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.”
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“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
Source : "Life In the Open Sea". Book by William M. Stephens (p. 21), 1972.
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“Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.”
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“Even God cannot change the past.”
Source : In Aristotle 'Nicomachaean Ethics' bk. 6, sect. 2, 1139b
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“There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.”
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“There are no inevitabilities in history”
Source : Paul Johnson (1983). “Modern times: the world from the twenties to the eighties”, HarperCollins Publishers
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