"I'm wary of the new contactless ways of paying. The idea of paying with your phone is a little worrying: I have lost more than one over the years."

-- Neil Oliver

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“I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.”
“There are science teachers who actually claim that they teach "a healthy skepticism." They do not. They teach a profound gullibility, and their dupes, trained not to think for themselves, will swallow any egregious rot, provided it is dressed up with long words and an affectation of objectivity to make it sound scientific.”

Source : Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”
“One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.”
“Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.”
“Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.”
“I will be a president in a skirt, but I will wear the pants.”
“I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.”
“We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated; all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity if we bother to put the right dots and squiggles between the words in the right places. Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. If it goes, the degree of intellectual impoverishment we face is unimaginable.”

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