Though it was now sovereign, the country still felt the after-effects of colonyhood.

His wounded tutor, his many duns, the skip and bed-maker who waited upon him, the undergraduates of his own time and the years below him, whom he had patronised or scorned—how could he bear to look any of them in the face now?

People are the ultimate core resource required to bridge from past success to future success — or yestermorrow.

Gregory House: Okay. Then why did you take her to a play? James Wilson: She's a friend. Gregory House: A friend with a squish mitten.