"The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation."

-- A. J. P. Taylor

#Hands Quotes #History Quotes #Clerks Quotes

“In the build-up to a race I begin practising two days beforehand with two other team members. We have an hour and a half practise run together. Then on the next day we have another practise in two separate hour long sessions. On the actual day of competition we do a warm-up run in the car before the race.”
“I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow...”
“There was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, â€œNothing, I just helped him cry.Â²â€ â€œEven after all this time the sun never says to the earth â€œYou owe meâ€ Look what happens with a love like that, It lights the whole sky..â€”
“The decathlon is nine Mickey Mouse events and the 1500 metres.”
“Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest.”
“I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.”
“How could you do me like that I took ya family in put some cash in ya pocket made you a man again”
“Hoc solum deliqui, quod uiuo. My only fault is that I am alive.”

Source : c.1181 On the refusal of many of his contemporaries to believe that his Dissuasio Valerii ad Rufinum could have been composed by a modern writer. De Nugis Curialium, Distinction 4, ch.5.

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