"Anyone who has walked through the deserted palaces of Versailles or Vienna realise how much of a part of the life of a nation is lost when a monarchy is abolished. If buckingham palace and windsor castle were transformed into museums, if one politician competed against another for president of the republic, Britain would be a sadder and less interesting place. Our politicians are not men such as could challenge more than a thousand years of history."

-- William Rees-Mogg

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“My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.”
“The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.”
“Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create.”

Source : "The mobile technofuture" by Neil McIntosh, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2002.
“Anybody who cares about the functioning of democracy should be concerned about the blurring of lines between public and private interests.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“You are on your own in a big world, in which you are one of many nations, some small, some medium sized, some large. You are nobody's boss and nobody is your boss.”
“The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.”
“The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.”

Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.59, Reprint Services Corporation
“The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.”

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