"A woman's friendship ever ends in love."

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Source : 'Dione' (1720) act 4, sc. 6

John Gay

“Games are unquestionably the single most important cultural form of the digital age.”

Source : Cathy N. Davidson (2011). “Now You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business for the 21s t Century”, p.90, Penguin
“The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars”
“I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.”
“I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part of.”

Source : "Behind enemy lines". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2008.
“Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.”
“The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety.”
“Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird”
“We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.”

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