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“There was never a good war, or a bad peace.” – Benjamin Franklin
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“Paragliding is a popular sport in Tajikistan.” – Michael Evans, Defence Editor, The Times
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“Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.” – Groucho Marx
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“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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“Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.” – Josef Stalin
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“Are you taking over or are you taking orders? Are you going backwards or are you going forwards?” – Joe Strummer
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“Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?” – Tony Hancock
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“Pay no attention to what the critics say…remember, a statue has never been set up in honour of a critic.” – Jean Sibelius
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“Democracy is not about voting people in – it’s about voting them out.” – Bill Thompson
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“The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded.” – Edmund Burke
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“The machine is neither a god nor a devil.” – Hans Stuckenschmidt
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“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” – George Orwell
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“Man will never be free until the last King is strangled with the entrails of the last Priest.” – Denis Diderot
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“You can’t write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say sometimes, so you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.” – Frank Zappa
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“It’s becoming remarkably hard to escape the feeling we’re ruled by people who are basically paranoid authoritarian incompetents.” – Iain Banks