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As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear. – David Crystal

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Ever since the arrival of printing – thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into peoples minds – people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language. – David Crystal

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Academics dont normally manage to alter peoples way of thinking through their strength of argument. – David Crystal

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My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didnt audition. It was nepotism all the way. – Jennifer Aniston

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It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, Every kid doesnt have snow in their backyard on Christmas? – Tori Spelling

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Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically. – Joe Manganiello

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I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times… that he can look and see my dads thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us. – Jeff Koons

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Everybody should be quiet near a little stream and listen – Ruth Krauss (1901–1993), Open House for Butterflies, 1960

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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. – Charlotte Bronte

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The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. – Paul Valery

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Luxury: The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923

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