"Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me."

-- Helen Fielding

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“The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.”

Source : Martha Grimes (2013). “The Man with a Load of Mischief”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
“I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.”
“All I have to do is play football now.”
“I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the syndrome of Stockholm is when you shift position and then you become like you're supposed to act, which is accepting the authority of those who have abducted you.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.”
“In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue â€˜ethnicâ€™ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%) of Tutsi (14%) or Twa (1%). The identity cards made it virtually impossible for Hutus to become Tutsis, and permitted the Belgians to perfect the administration of an apartheid system rooted in the myth of Tutsi superiorityâ€¦ Whatever Hutu and Tutsi identity may have stood for in the pre-colonial state no longer mattered; the Belgians had made â€˜ethnicityâ€™ the defining feature of Rwandan existence.”
“To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.”
“Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.”

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