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“Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.” – Kin Hubbard

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“My cryptographer went to Bletchley Park and all I got was a computing industry and a Europe free of fascist tyranny.” – Mr Weeble

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“My name is Shazia Mirza, or at least that is what is says on my pilot’s licence.” – Shazia Mirza, comedian

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You know I’m dead, I’m dead.
You know it.
(Dead, dead, really, really dead.)
You know I’m dead.
You know.
(Dead, dead, really, really dead.)
You know I’m dead, I’m dead.
You know it, you know.
(Dead, dead, really, really dead.)
And the whole world has to answer right now.
(And the whole world has to answer right now.)
Just to tell you once again.
(Just to tell you once again.)
Who cares?

- Michael Jackson

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“After 3 weeks away I feel like someone who’s eaten too many cheeseburgers at McDonald’s; full, but not satisfied.” – Stuart Hughes on US TV news

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“Not forgetting Alan Sugar, who has been appointed ‘enterprise tsar’ in place of the unlamented Digby Jones. Another classic piece of gimmickry which will inevitably backfire. Whatever next? Susan Boyle for culture minister?” – Chris Mullin MP

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“As far as I am concerned the Lord used this band to touch thousands if not more for the timeframe.”  – Forkumovah, commenting on really bad song by Grand Funk Railroad on YouTube. More god-bothering nonsense here.

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“God is our guide! from field, from wave, From plough, from anvil, and from loom; We come, our country’s rights to save, And speak a tyrant faction’s doom: We raise the watch-word liberty; We will, we will, we will be free!” – George Loveless

Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum

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“[The Iraq inquiry] should be open. I think it should also have powers of subpoena and people should give evidence on oath. I would be perfectly comfortable with that.” – Sir Christopher Meyer, former British ambassador in Washington

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“The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they’re property.” – Frank Zappa

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“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” – Frank Zappa

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“How can you make a mistake? It is your solo, your guitar, and you are playing a piece of your own music. Who could possibly tell you you are making a mistake ?” – Frank Zappa

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“Enforcement of anti-masturbatory legislation could prove costly and time-consuming.” – Frank Zappa’s prepared statement before the Senate, September 19, 1985

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“Citizens seem satisfied with the ID card – which is rarer than sex with an elephant.” – Giuseppe Mistretta, Italian Embassy, London, 2003

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/nov/15/eu.humanrights

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“Necessity is the argument of tyrants and the creed of slaves.” – William Pitt