Thursday 22 April 2010

April 22

He can’t love; she can’t empathise. There can be no legislating for hidden disabilities.

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According to Swift, Man is rationis capax: a species capable of reason. We are also capable of running 100 metres in under ten seconds; but it’s not a talent given to many.

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With European flights grounded, gone is the impulse to leap on a plane to escape the noise of aircraft.

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Sexual propriety is the want of opportunity promoted to a virtue.

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Why do political journalists associate smiling with a ‘human face’? A scowl, a grimace, a sneer are no less representative of the species.

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Some couples separate to escape the loneliness of being together.

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The Left patronises in word, the Right in deed. This may be why so many working-class Americans vote Republican. We prefer to be exploited for our ignorance than informed of it.

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