"Being a seasoned Londoner, Martin gave the body the "London once-over" - a quick glance to determine whether this was a drunk, a crazy or a human being in distress. The fact that it was entirely possible for someone to be all three simultaneously is why good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like BASE jumping or crocodile wrestling."

-- Ben Aaronovitch

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“Work your ***** off. Don't be an asshole.”
“There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.”
“We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression.”
“Rock â€™n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm. It's the rhythm that gets to the kids â€“ they're starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners.”
“Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.”

Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.68
“I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be within and without: . . . with such differences as might suit and express each man's character and occupation, and partly his history.”
“Negativland through rose colored glasses. If 'mice are from Mars,' Greek Buck is from Venus.”
“When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.”

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