"The Government have consistently made it clear that the mechanism in the United Kingdom whereby the European draft constitutional treaty could be implemented is approval by the House of Commons followed by a referendum of the people of Britain. There is no question of implementing it by the back door."

-- Douglas Alexander

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“An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art. The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love.”

Source : Louis Sullivan, Robert Twombly (1988). “The Public Papers”, p.156, University of Chicago Press
“I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.”

Source : "Roma Downey: No voice of an angel" by Donna Freydkin, www.cnn.com. October 15, 1999.
“I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost concede before they start: 'Well, it won't be good, but at least it'll be good-looking. We'll have nice-looking girls in tight shirts with F.B.I. badges and fit-looking guys with lots of hair gel vaulting over things.'”
“Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.”
“Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language”

Source : Marc Prensky (2012). “From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom: Hopeful Essays for 21st Century Learning”, p.69, Corwin Press
“All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.”
“You have to look good.”
“Every runner has a specific motivation and inspiration for running a marathon. This year, all 36,000 of us will 'run together' to demonstrate the spirit of the marathon. We will still have our individual motivations, but we will be unified under the Boston Strong umbrella.”

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