"One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master."

-- Joseph Addison

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“Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.”
“Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of browbeating others.”
“In the week before a race, I try to stay away from germ areas. I keep disinfectant wipes in my bag for when I have to use a supermarket trolley or something like that.”
“It's harder when people are playing along, because it's just not as funny. They're trying to be funny, and it sort of cancels out the whole joke.”
“The people in Tacloban have great dignity and deserve better than what they have gotten”
“It becomes harder and harder to say where the world stops and the person begins.”

Source : Andy Clark (2004). “Natural-born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

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