"People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors."

-- John Betjeman

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“And there I saw in the night the vision of a man....coming as it were from Ireland, with countless letters. And he gave me one of them, and I read the opening words of the letter, which were, The voice of the Irish...and as I read the beginning of the letter I thought that at the same moment I heard their voice - they were those beside the Wood of Voclut, which is near the Western Sea - and thus did they cry out as with one mouth: We ask thee, boy, come and walk among us once more.”
“In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.”
“Before you can improve your life and find a measure of happiness, you must learn to do one thing every day out of pure love.”
“So dogma, doctrine, unexamined assumptions, that's what it is to be sharing that, the hippies shadow, no way of grounding it to reality. It's where we're just cut off from reality unless we can argue, we can substantiate, we can justify, we can convince each other.”
“I'm feeling better than expected.”
“Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great.”
“Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education.”

Source : Liza Mundy (2009). “Michelle: A Biography”, p.41, Simon and Schuster
“In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.”

Source : "Putting an End to Secret Campaign Contributions" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2012.

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