“..about 350 B.C., Aristotle summarized the reasons the flat-earth theory was unsatisfactory. First, certain stars disappeared beyond the Southern Hemisphere as one traveled north, and beyond the Northern Hemisphere as one traveled south. Second, the earth’s shadow on the moon during a lunar eclipse was always the arc of a circle. Third, here on the earth itself, ships disappeared beyond the horizon hull-first in whatever direction they were traveling.

“..from now on I’m going to just hit ‘hide’ on every one of my comics that gets posted reddit and stop reading these threads. Feel free to do the same.

“There is a lot happening at the moment, there are too many things in my head. But I just need to focus on the right thing at the right time.

“..it is unfair to single out cricket fans or Indian spectators: in a general way, the Web has invested all of us with a sense of empowerment and entitlement. ..millions of us comment on stuff we read online when once just a handful of professional malcontents wrote letters to the editor.

“brutalize –verb
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3. become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling

“I think I’ll leave the Windows Vista sticker on my laptop. It’s pretty and I did pay a lot for it.

“Yahoo is currently ahead of Google when it comes to mobile, putting the onus on Google to be smart in this space - but could they buy Twitter without questions arising over their abandonment of predecessor Dodgeball? Nope.

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

“What a crazy place is reddit, where there are people who can translate tibetan, just like that.

“Suffrage is also called political franchise or simply the franchise, a term dating from the time when the Franks of ancient France were free.