"When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first... Of course, to observe is not its real duty, we already know exactly where the convoy is. Its real duty is to be observed...Then, when we come round and sink them, the Germans will not find it suspicious."

-- Alan Turing

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“Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel immortal for a few hours.”

Source : Colman McCarthy (1977). “The pleasures of the game: the theory free guide to golf”
“Women have been oppressed for so long in any industry, it just takes time for a shift to happen to create more equality in any field, but I feel like it's slowly happening now. It's just things don't change over night. It's the same for racism, homophobia, xenophobia etc. If you think back even just 15 years and see how different people's mentalities were then, think how much more progress and equality we cab reach in another 15 years.”
“Here’s a secret intel bulletin for all y’all who’ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the precipice of enemy invasion—the only way this country is ever going to surrender its liberty to a foreign power is if it keeps electing corrupt officials who auction it away to multinational corporations and overseas government interests in exactly the fashion that southern star chambers have been doing to their own people throughout their entire dyspeptic history.”

Source : Chuck Thompson (2013). “Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession”, p.69, Simon and Schuster
“They did not want anything to do with me in Paris and they were right: they have gone much further than I, but I will work and I too will progress.”
“Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is also an idiomatic language, a language of cues and puns and symbols and allusions, of cultural references and perceptual inferences that challenge both the intellect and the eye.”
“Dad, I can count the number of normal school days I've had this year on one hand.”
“I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.”

Source : Arthur Miller (2015). “The Crucible”, p.155, Bloomsbury Publishing
“But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life.”

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