"The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones."

-- Wendell Willkie

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“Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.”

Source : "Whose digital content is it anyway?" by James Bridle, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2015.
“Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.”
“I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you â€œsirâ€ and â€œmadam,â€ and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of â€œwhat is doneâ€ and â€œwhat is not done,â€ and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena”
“It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.”
“One can only define the unknown by its supposed and supposable relations with the known.”
“I'm a very private person, so I didn't like this idea of tweeting about me. And then I realized, 'Oh, this is actually a brilliant device in terms of interacting with the fans'. It's a lovely way to just get back, to thank the fans for watching the show. And to live tweet is kind of like getting the rewards of doing live theatre.”
“When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.”
“The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted.”

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