"The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper."

-- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#World Quotes #Window Quotes #Newspapers Quotes

“We like to hunt and golf and drive around lost, and scratch and spit, and a whole lot of other disgusting stuff.”
“Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.”

Source : Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community”, p.14
“Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.”
“Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark's fin and rich spiced wine of which the cost is frequently mentioned by the provider.”

Source : Ernest Bramah (1963). “The Celestial Omnibus”
“I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.”
“Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them.”

Source : Jonathan BROOKS (Quaker, of Bristol.), Nicholas LING (1773). “Antiquity; or the Wise instructer. Being a collection of ... admonitions and sentences compendiously put together from an infinite variety of the most celebrated Christian and heathen writers, etc. The editor's dedication signed: Jonathan Brooks. A reprint, with minor alterations, of N. Ling's “Politeuphuia. Wits Commonwealth.””, p.197
“I've been slagged off completely by the art world”
“System uptime, data protection, and identity theft are weighty issues. It takes real ingenuity to out-think the fraudsters who are trying to steal identities and hack into enterprise systems. The 12 smart companies that debuted security solutions today at DEMO have designed serious, and seriously clever, innovations.”

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