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“There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Everybody now-a-days is a father, there is father Mussolini and father Hitler and father Roosevelt and father Stalin and father Trotsky and father Blum and father Franco is just commencing now and there are ever so many more ready to be one. Fathers are depressing. England is the only country now that has not got one and so they are more cheerful there than anywhere. It is a long time now that they have not had any fathering and so their cheerfulness is increasing.”

Long Country Father Doubt Too Much Ready Long Time England No Doubt Depressing Cheerful Cheerfulness Franco Fathering Trotsky

Author:Gertrude Stein

“New England has two factors to get them ready to play. They've consistently been, if not the best, the second best team all year and they're playing confidently. And a lot of those guys were on field when they lost to LA. They'll take motivation in that.”

Ifs Years Two Play Motivation Guy Lost Team Fields Ready England Factors Consistently New England Best Team Second Best

Author:Landon Donovan

“However, you have to recognize that regulations will never be completely successful and they will always be full of holes. You must constantly be ready to fill new holes. Actually regulation should be kept to a minimum, but there has to be some cooperation between market participants and authorities - as was the case in the early postwar years. The Bank of England was a very successful regulator by cooperating with market participants. This cooperative spirit was broken by the market fundamentalists.”

Should Years Spirit Cases Successful Ready Broken Authority England Holes Cooperation Regulation Minimum Participants Cooperatives Regulators Cooperating

Author:George Soros

“I was just ready to make a movie for the girls. It was just really fun to write for a girl. It was really indulgent and sweet. The whole movie feels indulgent, doesn't it? It's such a romp in England.”

Feels Writing Whole Girl Fun Ready Sweet England

Author:Jerusha Hess

“I am ready to work, I am ready for this job and I am ready for this challenge. (on being Manchester City manager)”

Jobs Challenges Cities Ready England Managers Manchester Manchester City

Author:Stuart Pearce

“I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.”

Years Home Lasts Missing Ready England Weather Coming Home Moss

Author:Sting

“Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery farm in England, people who wouldn't think twice about buying something oven-ready become much more upset about a chicken that they've been on a boat with, so there is probably buried in the Western psyche a deep taboo about eating anything you've been introduced to socially.”

People Thinking Facts Natural Ready Eating England Raised Western Despite Boat Upset Islands Buying Chickens Farms Buried Taboo Batteries Ovens Think Twice Natural Life Buying Something

Author:Douglas Adams

“I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.”

Reason Ready England Absurd Ready To Leave

Author:Claire Forlani

“A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that if, say, Oscar Wilde had lived into his nineties, instead of dying in his forties, he would have been considered a benign, distinguished figure suitable to preside at a school prize-giving or to instruct and exhort scout masters at their jamborees. He might even have been knighted.”

Source: The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge