"The town of GUILDFORD, which (taken with its environs) I, who have seen so many, many towns, think the prettiest, and, taken all together, the most agreeable and most happy-looking, that I ever saw in my life."

-- William Cobbett

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“A group of amazingly high achievers can be brought together and play together, and all believe that they are competing for something bigger than themselves. Those players are so used to being patted on the back and told how good they are. Frankly, those are usually the hardest people to remind that they are aspiring to achieve something bigger than themselves.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“The onus is on us to determine whether free societies in the twenty-first century will conduct electronic communication under the conditions of freedom established for the domain of print through centuries of struggle, or whether that great achievement will become lost in a confusion of new technologies.”

Source : Ithiel de Sola POOL (2009). “Technologies of Freedom”, p.10, Harvard University Press
“History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.”
“The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in somebody else's.”
“You should always change at least three times a day during Fashion Week.”
“I'm Irish, so I'm messing all the time. Which means, I'm having a laugh. I'm always making jokes.”
“Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.”
“That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle said. "So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means.”

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