Gaetana Korbin Quotes & Sayings

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature. — Louis Agassiz

He'd learned in recent days, though, that rather than drown in uncertainty it was best to surf right over the top of it. — Terry Pratchett

This is one of the truths of the influence industry in Britain: lobbyists are central to the process of government. To see lobbyists as separate and external to the system is a mistake. Rather than being parasitical, lobbyists should more accurately be viewed as essential to it, subsidising it even. As lobbying activity has increased, so our government has become ever more dependent on lobbyists to function. 'Our vaunted constitution is really a framework of lobbying', Austin Mitchell MP remarked twenty years ago.18 — Tamasin Cave

I think we're supposed to ask too much of each other; otherwise, nothing would ever get done. — Madeleine L'Engle

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion. — Jonathan Swift

To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph. — Thomas Carlyle