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“In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.”
“In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.”
“In England, life is a long process of composing oneself.”
Source: Cliffs of Fall: And Other Stories
“In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English is their almost complete lack of systematic thinking. Science to them consists of a number of successful raids into the unknown.”
“In England, nobody's your friend.”
“In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings... In France warrants are issued against them, they are persecuted, pelted with pastoral letters: Do we see that England is any the worse for it?”
“In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back.”
“In England, pop music seems now to be exclusively for children. If an artist is no good, why is it necessary to have that artist repeatedly rammed in our face?”
“In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.”
“In England, Rooney is a world-class footballer in the world.”
“In England, the population explosion can be linked very clearly with the enclosure of the commons that uprooted the peasants from their land. In India, it was the same thing: the population increased at the end of the 18th century when the British took over and Indian lands were colonized. Instead of the land feeding Indian people it started to feed the British empire. So we had destitution. Destitute people who don't have their own land to feed themselves can only feed themselves by having larger numbers, therefore they multiply. It's the rational response of a dispossessed people.”
“In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.”
Source: Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).
“In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!”
“In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement. Either you become a right-wing Archie Bunker if you are in the class I am in, or you become an instinctive socialist, which I was.”
“In England, there's a lot of people producing their own work and becoming producers and filmmakers, so they're not constantly waiting around. It can be very scarce for work, so it's important to create the work.”
“In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.”
“In England, they say that Manchester is the city of rain. It's main attraction is considered to the timetable at the railway station, where trains leave for other, less rainy cities.”
“In England, we have a curious institution called the Church of England. Its strength has always been in the fact that on any moral or political issue it can produce such a wide divergence of opinion that nobody -- from the Pope to Mao Tse-tung -- can say with any confidence that he is not an Anglican. Its weaknesses are that nobody pays much attention to it and very few people attend its functions.”
“In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.”
“In England, where I come from, fashion and music go hand in hand. They're integral to each other.”
“In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that islandare pedants. So are the "wits" there too. They introduce into reality absolute freedom whose reflection lends a romantic and piquant air to wit, and thus they live wittily; hence their talent for madness. They die for their principles.”
“In England, you have what I would call government-imposed euthanasia”
“In England, you're allowed to have an opinion - as long as it comes out of your mouth.”
“In England, your life is your life.”
“In English every word can be verbed.”
“In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.”
“In English-language speech, we spend five times as much time producing vowels as consonants. In singing, that ratio can hit two hundred to one.”
Source: Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning
“In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it is in life, has not expired yet.”
“In English, we have a word for pain and a word for thirst, but no single, specific terms that mean the opposite. We merely reference the absence of these aversive conditions, which makes sense, because their absence is considered part of the normal state. Our research suggests that “not lonely”—there is no better, more specific term for it—is also, like “not thirsty” or “not in pain,” very much part of the normal state. Health and well-being for a member of our species requires, among other things, being satisfied and secure in our bonds with other people, a condition of “not being lonely” that, for want of a better word, we call social connection.”
Source: Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection
“In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.”
“In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming.”
“In English we say:
all roads lead to Rome.
In Naskarian we say:
all roads lead to people.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“In English we say: blood is thicker than water. In Naskarian we say: humanity is thicker than blood and border.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“In English we say:
charity covers a multitude of sins.
In Naskarian we say:
correction prevents a multitude of injustice.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“In English we say:
clothes maketh the man.
In Naskarian we say:
clothes maketh the monkey,
character maketh the human.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“In English we say:
every cloud has a silver lining.
In Naskarian we say:
every struggle has a human shining.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“In English we say:
fool me once, shame on you,
fool me twice, shame on me.
In Naskarian we say:
it's not a shame to trust another,
shame is to grow cynical and bitter.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“In English we say:
for the people, by the people.
In Naskarian we say:
my world, my responsibility.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“In English we say:
if you want peace, prepare for war.
In Naskarian we say:
if you want peace, prepare for education.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“In English we say:
live and let live.
In Naskarian we say:
choose and let choose.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“In English we say:
lost sheep returns to the fold.
In Naskarian we say:
there's divinity in diversity.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“In English we say:
money makes the world go round.
In Naskarian we say:
kindness makes the world go forward.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“In English we say:
necessity is the mother of invention.
In Naskarian we say:
compassion is the mother of civilization.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“In English we say: no man is an island. In Naskarian we say: Earth is an island, our only shelter is each other.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“In English we say:
out of sight, out of mind.
In Naskarian we say:
out of love, out of life.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“In English we say:
proof of the pudding is in the eating.
In Naskarian we say:
proof of the pudding is in the sharing.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“In English we say:
survival of the fittest.
In Naskarian we say:
jungle is built by the fit,
civilization is built by the kind.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“In English we say: the pen is mightier than the sword. In Naskarian we say: heart is mightier than both pen and the sword.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“In English we say: to err is human, to forgive divine. In Naskarian we say: to err is machine, to correct human.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“In English we say:
united we stand, divided we fall.
In Naskarian we say:
united we exist, divided extinct.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat