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Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that so

Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing. – Kenneth Grahame

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Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today — in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped — always somebody elses horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my! – Kenneth Grahame

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Automobiles
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Kenneth Grahame
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A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces. – Kenneth Grahame

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Travel
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Believe me my young friend; there is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. – Kenneth Grahame

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Boats/Boating
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Other Quotes from
Society
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. – George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

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Society

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. – John Stuart Mill

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Society

If you ask an economist whats driven economic growth, its been major advances in things that mattered – the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that. – Larry Page

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Society

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer. – Nat Turner

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Society

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I emphasize… that the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and confidence in us, because three or four of us were really running the business, the day to day business. – Prescott Bush

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Courage

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software. – Arthur C. Clarke

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Computers

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. – Billy Wilder

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movies

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. – Aleister Crowley

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Science