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I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and internet came along…and then i realise that i have spent more than half of my life in the ‘dark ages’!
-Arthur C. Clarke
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I Sometimes Wonder How We Spent Leisure

Arthur C. Clarke
I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and internet came along…and then i realise that i have spent more than half of my life in the ‘dark ages’!
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