"It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country."

-- Fiorello H. La Guardia

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“But I'll never see any of those fish," said Maxie."Or those whales. Or any lions or tigers. I'm never going to set foot in a rain forest now, am I? I won't even be able to watch old DVD's about them without electricity. What does the future hold? It's like going back to the middle ages. Nobody knowing what was going on beyond their front doorstep. All I'll ever know is this. This little bit of London.”
“There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.”
“The personal is political.”
“Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that.”
“I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.”
“I'm not supposed to talk about the snail. The snail is, well, congratulations to whoever noticed it. It's supposed to be a thing where you gotta look for it in every episode, and it's there three times in every episode.”
“The promise of the Internet-as-Alexandria is more than the rolling plenitude of information. It's the ability of individuals to choreograph that information in idiosyncratic ways, the hope that individuals might feel invited by the gravitational pull of a broad and open commons to 'rip, mix, and burn' - to curate.”
“Big things have small beginnings.”

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