William Byfield's Secret E-Diary
Secret E-Diary
<p><em><strong>Travel broadens the mind</strong> </em> </p>
<p>“Wherever you go, go with all your heart”– Confucius </p>
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<p><em><strong>Passing laws is not a substitute for taking action</strong> </em> </p>
<p>'There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot’ – Derek Bok </p>
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<p><em><strong>To stay or to go has its courtroom equivalent</strong> </em> </p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">‘It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.’ – Thomas Sowell</span> </p>
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<p><em><strong>Words sometimes really will hurt you</strong> </em> </p>
<p>‘Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood’ – King Lear, William Shakespeare </p>
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<p><em><strong>Surprise victories are perhaps not so surprising</strong> </em> </p>
<p>‘People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.’– Blaise Pascal, Pensées </p>
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<p><em><strong>When the desire to know becomes the desire to nose</strong> </em> </p>
<p>‘I believe in transparency’ – Hillary Clinton </p>
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<p><em><strong>'Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans' <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">– John Lennon</span></strong> </em> </p>
<p>In which we learn what really matters </p>
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<p><strong><em>‘Men don’t get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.’ – John Steinbeck </em></strong> </p>
<p>The fees’ battle can be lost by time alone </p>
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<p><em><strong>New Year brings mixed blessings</strong> </em> </p>
<p>‘Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.’ – Sophocles </p>
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<p><em><strong>Leaving is so very hard to do</strong> </em> </p>
<p>“What you are to do without me I cannot imagine…” – George Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion” </p>
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