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  • Bicycle

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    Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavour – an almost neutral environmental effect coupled with the ability to travel substantial distances without disturbing anybody. The bike is the perfect marriage of technology and human energy.    Jeremy Corbyn… Read More ›

  • Language

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    About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.   Edsger Dijkstra Edsger Wybe Dijkstra ( Dutch:  11 May… Read More ›

  • Change

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    Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.   Jane Goodall   Dame Jane Morris Goodall, (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall, 3 April 1934),[3] formerly Baroness Jane van… Read More ›

  • Language

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    Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It’s a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people’s minds. I’m talking about your language.    Mark Pagel   Mark David… Read More ›