Information Age
You know you have moved from the current generation, through the penultimate generation, to the ultimate generation, when there is no one you can ask about things that happened in your childhood.
Bon mots
Without honour anywhere
Prophets are often profitable but never prophetable.
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End of High School photos, 1961
Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
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Your time starts now…
Life is an exam paper with a series of questions. For some people the questions get easier towards the end, for others harder. You have to mark your own paper, there is no examiner. Pass mark is 50%, and no-one has ever scored 100%. Good luck.
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Consequently
For the anxiety sufferer, a timetable or schedule, the stuff of everyday life in the workplace, therefore become the stuff of nightmares.
Usually both
Anxiety means that every action you need to take during the day is either a concern or a challenge.
Pass mark
I used to enjoy watching the Passing Parade. Now I dread watching the Passing Out and the Passing On.
Continuity
Throughout history, all over the world, the ruling classes have always been the same kind of people. Hell, they’re usually the SAME people.
Stop all the clocks
My grandfather’s fob watch, a present from his father, ticked away all the years and events of the first half of the twentieth century – marriages and births and deaths and wars and emigration and illness and disappointment and much joy. But since he died, in 1953, of a horrible illness, a young man of
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Riders in the dust storm
How wonderful to look up at Mars and know there are vehicles, made by humans, on its surface. How aweful to look up at Mars and know there are vehicles, made by humans, on its surface.
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