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VERNOR VINGE We covered every major segment of this broadband communications world.
HENRY SAMUELI In rural areas, we don't have access to high speed internet services like we would in larger cities....
BARBARA JACOBS We just wanted to make sure we can access it with our horses.
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JOYCE GIRAUD The superstition in which we grew up,
Though we may recognize it, does not lose
Its power over...
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JONATHAN SWIFT When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in ...
JONATHAN SWIFT 'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men...
JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
JONATHAN SWIFT One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of t...
JONATHAN RABAN I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contrib...
JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: a...
JONATHAN SWIFT Come, agree, the law's costly.
JONATHAN SWIFT There's none so blind as they that won't see.
JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; wh...
JONATHAN SWIFT Brutes find out where their talents lie;
A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
JONATHAN SWIFT Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserte...
JONATHAN RABAN But when a Man
JONATHAN SWIFT Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
JONATHAN SWIFT There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external r...
JONATHAN EDWARDS Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
JONATHAN EDWARDS I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ...
JONATHAN SWIFT Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
JONATHAN SWIFT Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth,...
JONATHAN SWIFT I wont quarrel with my bread and butter.
JONATHAN SWIFT I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
JONATHAN SWIFT