"Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!"

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Source : Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Thomas Forbes Kelsall, Charles Dacres Bevan (1851). “The Poems, Posthumous and Collected: Death's jest-book. The brides' tragedy”, p.11

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

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“I might not be in a relationship anymore, but I don't believe that people should have to lie to themselves just to make somebody else feel good.”
“The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news.”
“A country-bred man can always learn to get on with city people, but a town-bred fellah never gets the real hang of the country. You can put city polish on a man, but by golly, it seems you can't ever rub it off him.”
“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.”
“The present moment is our ain, The neist we never saw!”

Source : William Julius Mickle, Tobias George Smollett (1822). “The Poems of Mickle, and Smollett”, p.93
“Data really powers everything that we do.”

Source : "Where LinkedIn is headed next". Interview with Adam Lashinsky, fortune.com. June 18, 2012.
“From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.”
“The fact is that much of advertising's power comes from this belief that advertising does not affect us. The most effective kind of propaganda is that which is not recognized as propaganda. Because we think advertising is silly and trivial, we are less on guard, less critical, than we might otherwise be. It's all in fun, it's ridiculous. While we're laughing, sometimes sneering, the commercial does its work.”

Source : Jean Kilbourne (2012). “Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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