“ We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us anything, it is that supposedly worthy displays of democracy in action can actual… Alex Morritt
“ ...the centrality of competitiveness as the key to growth is a recurrent EU motif. Two decades of EC directives on increasing competition in every area, from telecommunications to power generation to… Mark Blyth
“ In the large sense, I have to disagree with Bakunin, one thing austerity rhetoric has suggested is that when the people are being beaten with a stick, they are much happier if the media call it the Pe… Bruno De Oliveira
“ For it wasn't the secret--the secret that wasn't a secret anyway--that led to austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all,… Sue Miller
“ Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can never express love. Michael Bassey Johnson
“ Hardship bred a bitter, quickfire humour and resilience to all but the most terminal of life's tragedies. Ian Rankin
