Seamanship Quotation
“In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination.”
— from Michael Oakeshott's
“
Political Education” (1951)
Monday, November 22, 2010
Brain candy (4)
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He also distrusted anyone who routinely referred to ‘the planet’ as proof of thinking big.
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—Ian McEwan,
Solar
, Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2010, p.25
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