Alex Morritt Quotes

#1. Every giant leap for mankind resulting from a technological advance requires a commensurate step in the opposite direction - a counterweight to ground us in humanity.

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#2. The word 'friend' has become so utterly void of meaning in a world governed by social media. How can anyone truly claim to have eleven hundred friends ? In my book that would involve making time to meet at least three of them every day of the year.

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#3. Making New Year resolutions is one thing. Remaining resolute and seeing them through is quite another.

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#4. A fine single malt whisky, of course, is purely medicinal - it cures all manner of ailments one may care to imagine.

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#5. The 'Selfie Stick' has to top the list for what best defines narcissism in society today.

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#6. Motorcycle adventures are the perfect antidote to middle age.

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#7. If bread - the staff of life - feeds the body; stories nourish the soul.

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#8. The pen may indeed be mightier than the sword, but the wordsmith would do well to welcome the blacksmith back into the fold, so that artisan craftsmanship the world over may fend off the ravages of industrialised homogeneity and bland monoculture.

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#9. Red onion skins and New Year's Eve have much in common - they both peel away to reveal new vibrancy.

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#10. How many of your contemporaries - when asked the question 'Are you glad you had kids'? - invariably respond 'Yes, but..'?

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#11. If ever an obsolete term urgently needed redefining, the humble 'glove compartment' would surely win any contest hands down.

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#12. The more time we spend interconnected via a myriad of devices, the less time we have left to develop true friendships in the real world.

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#13. Why the obsession with worldly possessions ? When it's your time to go, they have to stay behind, so pack light.

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#14. There is already enough chattering nonsense on the ground. Do we really need aviaries in pressurised tin cans at 30,000 feet as well ?

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#15. If 'seeing is believing' what happened to taste, touch, sound and smell ? Did our creator really intend to favour sight over the other senses ? I don't believe so.

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#16. Owning fewer keys opens more doors.

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#17. New Year - a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story ? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.

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#18. Happy New Year' is a festive form of address often uttered without thinking. Yet how many souls will in fact be happy in the coming year is a taxing question requiring a great deal more thought.

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#19. Age is a seasoned trickster. To our parents, we will always be children. Within ourselves, the same yearnings of youth; the same aspirations of adolescence, will last a lifetime. Only to the young - blinded by our grey hair and slowing gait - do we appear old and increasingly beyond the pale.

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#20. Better to reach your deathbed with regrets for things done rather than remorses for things never tried.

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