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“I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.”
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“Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.”
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“I thought you said that after this many years nothing should embarrass him?" Leigh said with gentle amusement. Lucian grunted. "I guess he's more sensitive than I thought." "I am NOT sensitive," Cale snapped, irritated by the very suggestion. "It's probably his mother's fault," Lucian said, ignoring him. "Martine named him after Caliope, the muse of poetry. Between that and his father dying when he was only fifty, he's probably suffered under Martine's namby-pamby influence.”
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“There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to draw a boundary around a system depends on the purpose of the discussion.”
Source : Donella Meadows (2008). “Thinking in Systems: A Primer”, p.97, Chelsea Green Publishing
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“If you are not enjoying yourself, you are wasting time.”
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“If you're like me, you probably take your cell phone with you everywhere you go. That means that everywhere you go, you can be tracked and located through that cell phone. It's a feature of cell phones that's not often mentioned, but that is being used by law enforcement to catch criminals.”
Source : "Police Use Stingray Tool To Intercept Cellphone Signals". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.
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“My sisters and I cannot spend any substantial time searching for Wickham, as we are each commanded by His Majesty to defend Hertfordshire from all enemies until such time as we are dead, rendered lame, or married.”
Source : Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.252, Quirk Books
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“Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.”