"Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of -pick a number- 40 you're on. Under 40, and transparency is generally considered a good thing for society. Over 40, and one generally chooses privacy over transparency. On every side of this issue, hypocrisy abounds."

-- Graydon Carter

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“Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.”
“Bad movies are when people go, 'oh, I wasted $10 bucks and 2 hours and I don't even want to go back again.'”
“Success has got no taste or smell and when you get used to it, it's as if it didn't exist.”
“Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of a secretion from a sentimental point of view.”
“On Saturday morning, one of the two teams still unbeaten in the Premiership occupied a modest seventh place. It is an illustration of the relentless pace being set at the top of the league in which every stumble is a serious fall and draws usually constitute two dropped points.”
“Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?”
“Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes â€” I mean the universe â€” but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written”
“I'm sorry, but having an Aston Martin DB9 on the drive and not driving it is a bit like having Keira Knightley in your bed and sleeping on the couch.”

Source : Jeremy Clarkson (2009). “Driven to Distraction”, p.102, Penguin UK

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