"I am delighted to be involved in the digital divide campaign to ensure that every school is made aware of what steps it can take to address the digital divide as it affects local children, and provide a range of opportunities for ICT suppliers, government agencies, charities and other organisations to make a contribution."

-- Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

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“Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.”
“Certainly the research shows that grateful people are more innovative thinkers.”
“I leave with sadness, but also with pride,”

Source : "Rahul Dravid retires from cricket 'with sadness but also with pride'", www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.
“So let's raise the tone of the debate. Too often at the moment we look like schoolchildren squabbling over a toy - our most precious toy, the Earth. And the danger is that as we pull in opposite directions in our global tug of war, the Earth will end up broken - or at least unable to sustain human life. That is the worst case scenario - or maybe, from the Earth's point of view, the best.”
“History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.”
“Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.”

Source : Bernard DeVoto (2010). “The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto”, p.62, Tin House Books
“How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work.”
“Fear the vulture and the vulture will come. Fear nothing and you are the vulture.”

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