- Boris Johnson's Wiff Waff
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Friday, 12th December 2008
One of the most amusing quotes of 2008 must be this: At a party to mark the handover of the Olympic flag in Beijing, newly elected Mayor Boris Johnson laid claim to Britain’s sporting inventiveness.
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- Cool Hand Luke
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Tuesday, 15th July 2008
What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.
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- Aristotle on Excellence
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Saturday, 29th March 2008
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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