Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“If any of you have got an A-level, it is because you have worked to get it. Go to any other country and when you have got an A-level you have bought it.”
Speech, quoted in The Guardian, 31 December 1994
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Michael Portillo 1
British politician turned television personality 1953Related quotes
Source: Quartered Safe Out Here (1992), p. xv.
On parenting, Salon (17 October 1997).
Context: The stern dad stuff doesn't work anymore. You have to be level with the kids, you have to be a nice guy... The authority thing just doesn't work anymore. It's like directing a Chinese film vs. directing an American film. On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.
as quoted in A House Divided: American Art Since 1955, Anne M. G. Wagner, Univ. of California Press 2012, p. 205 - note 8
1980 - 2000
Meeting with House Republicans, (January 2010) http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2440324/posts
2010
Reported by Representative Martin Dies as having been said in a conversation at the White House, in the Congressional Record (September 22, 1950), vol. 96, Appendix, p. A6832. Reported as "exceedingly dubious" in Paul F. Boller, Jr., Quotemanship: The Use and Abuse of Quotations for Polemical and Other Purposes, chapter 8, p. 361 (1967); Boller goes on to say that "it is most unlikely that FDR would have said anything like it, even flippantly, to the zealous HUAC chairman, though he may have told Dies that he was exaggerating the size of the American communist movement".
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