Mai Badawy

“common end—and that end a moment of enlightenment and understanding and completion. Someone—a Latin poet—had defined eternity as no more than this: to hold and possess the whole fullness of life in one moment, there and then, past and present and to come. He thought, If we could only stop life for a while I would stop here. Not when I get home, not leaving Trenwith, but here, here reaching the top of the hill out of Sawle, dusk wiping out the edges of the land and Demelza walking and humming at my side.”
― Winston Graham, Ross Poldark

“There's iron, they say, in all our blood,
  And a grain or two perhaps is good;
  But his, he makes me harshly feel,
  Has got a little too much of steel.'
          ANON.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“How can we fix a future in which algorithms replace not only vast swatches of the manual labor force, but also skilled workers like lawyers, doctors, and engineers?”
― Andrew Keen, How to Fix the Future

“He found, quite to his surprise, that he was happy. Not merely happy in Demelza's happiness but in himself. He couldn't think why. The condition just existed within him.”
― Winston Graham, Ross Poldark