"Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics."

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Source : "Is Britishness a generous thing, or has it damaged England?". www.opendemocracy.net. January 17, 2012.

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“There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.”
“If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.”

Source : "Martin Gore on new Depeche Mode CD, Frank Ocean". Interview, newsok.com. March 26, 2013.
“Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.”
“Granted: I AM an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peep-hole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.”
“I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.”
“Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.”

Source : "The Ring of Solomon". Book by Jonathan Stroud, October 14, 2010.
“Your peers are people in the business who are going to push you forward. So I think it's one of the reasons that Syracuse students come out truly ready for the industry because we've been rubbing elbows with people who are likeminded and just as 'pushy' or as ready to go as we are.”
“We are not afraid of what we think we are afraid of . . . we are afraid of what we think.”

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