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“After standing on the stage, after the debates, I made it very plain, we will not have an all-volunteer army. And yet, this week—we will have an all-volunteer army. Let me restate that.” – GW Bush
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“Politicians don’t get logic or sarcasm; they only understand two very different things: money and votes.” – Josh Mehlan
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“And so during these holiday seasons, we thank our blessings.” – GW Bush
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“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.” – Buckminster Fuller
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“When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.” – Woody Allen
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“The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.” – Gustave Flaubert
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“The message Kevin Rudd is giving to his people, his citizens, is a fabrication, it’s fiction.” – Lumumba Di-Aping, Copenhagen negotiator
467
“The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.” – Anatole France
466
“Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.” – Dave Barry
465
“Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion” – Spike Milligan
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“The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use – of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.” – Robert F Kennedy
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“Selling customers what they desire is fundamental to any successful business. If Big Content can’t figure out how to do that, then we can only pray for their hasty demise, before they can do too much more damage to humanity’s most amazing and wonderful invention: the internet.” - Cory Doctorow
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“Still, however well intentioned and structured, [Australia's Internet censorship plan] won’t work. Dumbest. Idea. Ever.” – Michael Malone, CEO iiNet
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“What we want to do is check people’s intent, but we can’t because that’s hard, so we check their identity instead and pretend it’s the same thing.” – Bruce Schneier
