"Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive."

-- Patricia Duncker

#Priceless Quotes

“Ruby Stevens was determined, ambitious and tough. She had to fend for herself in so many ways as a child and always felt apart, on her own.”
“Nothing's as easy as it is on a sitcom. Issues that we take care of in 20 minutes on the show can stretch out over years in real families.”
“Rumpole, you must move with the times." "If I don't like the way the times are moving, I shall refuse to accompany them.”

Source : John Mortimer (2007). “Rumpole Misbehaves”, p.68, Penguin
“Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards. And it's much easier to do business with someone when you look them in the eye and say, "This is what we're going to do," and you understand what you each mean, and you can go away and get it done.”
“I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button.”
“A good test case is a test case that has a high probability of detecting an undiscovered error, not a test case that show that the program works correctly.”
“Being gay is harder than being black. I didn't have to come out black. I didn't have to tell my parents about what its like to be black.”
“How is it to be explained that something inside me revolts against the playing of obvious moves? Perhaps we may perceive the underlying reason in the fact that I derive satisfaction from seeking to reveal the concealed meaning of a position by means of maneuvering play and therefore I do not wish to see this satisfaction curtailed by a banal, more or less fortuitous decision. Naturally, this phenomenon is played out beneath the threshold of consciousness. The waking consciousness will, of course, in each individual case, give preference to the more rapid means of deciding the game.”

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