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“Love is the fart Of every heart: It pains a man when 'tis kept close, And others doth offend, when 'tis let loose. ”
― Sir John Suckling

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“The weight-loss industry is the most profitable failed industry in history,”
― Sarai Walker, Dietland

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“If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. Lucille Ball

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― Lucille Ball

tags: being-busy, inspirational, lucille-ball, lucy, practical-business

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“Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood”
― Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society

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“Thom pulled nervously at his ‘Kings’ t-shirt. The Kings are a brutal West African gang that he follows onscreen. Such ‘tourist shows’, as I understand they are called, have become wildly popular in recent years, as global unrest makes actual travel less popular.

Armoured imaging teams, using tiny remote drone cameras known as ‘flies’, take the viewer inside the violent, gang-controlled regions of Nigeria and Cameroon. Using a touch screen, viewers (or ‘zoners’ as they are sometimes called) can follow the action from multiple angles while cheering on their favourite gang.”
― Paul Christensen, Reveries of the Dreamking

tags: africa, gangs, reality-tv, satire, virtual-reality

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