"We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education."

-- Nigel Short

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“Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the spine, and felt the aorta greatly enlarged, and beating with excessive force. By means of my finger nail, I scratched through the peritoneum on the left side of the aorta, and then gradually passed my finger between the aorta and the spine, and again penetrated the peritoneum, on the right side of the aorta. I had now my finger under the artery, and by its side I conveyed the blunt aneurismal needle, armed with a single ligature behind it...”

Source : Sir Astley Cooper (1835). “Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery”, p.213
“All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.”
“I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?”
“Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.”
“Driving a race car is like dancing with a chain saw.”
“Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.”
“Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.”
“The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves properly.”

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