"When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner."

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Source : "What's in your basket, Vince Cable?" by Rebecca Seal and Dr John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.

Vince Cable

#Children Quotes #Vegetables Quotes #British Quotes

“Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world.”
“Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?”
“It is so good, so sweet and above all, so beneficial to suffer.”
“It violates right order whenever capital so employs the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage, without any regard to the human dignity of the workers, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.”
“Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive.”
“You have underestimated my power, as you will shortly discover.”
“I have a real problem when people say, "Well I walked by and you should have seen what was on the computer screen." Well, don't look, sweetie. It's none of your business. Avert your eyes.”

Source : "A Library That Would Rather Block Than Offend," by Pamela Mendels, The New York Times, archive.nytimes.com. January 18, 199.
“Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.”

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