"If you look at the steps being taken towards Scottish independence, they're being dealt with politically in very dull and boring ways. So if you just feverishly speculate numbered but random Scotlands - because in the book, it's a random sequence of possibilities - you can imagine many ways in which different things might happen."

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#Book Quotes #Taken Quotes #Independence Quotes

“I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.”
“We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.”

Source : 1878 Music-hall song, inspired by Disraeli's speech of 9 Nov1876 threatening Russia with war if it sent volunteers into Serbia and Montenegro. This is the origin of 'jingoism'.
“Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!”
“So Crake never remembered his dreams. It's Snowman that remembers them instead. Worse than remembers: he's immersed in them, he'd wading through them, he's stuck in them. Every moment he's lived in the past few months was dreamed first by Crake. No wonder Crake screamed so much.”
“YouÂ can always expect tragedy as well as adventure; that's just how it goes,”
“To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.”
“A lot of the touring stuff has become a drag. Traveling itself is a drag. Anyone who's been to an airport knows that.”
“When our response to all trauma is to call the police, then that gets us into a cycle of perpetuating trauma. Mental health trauma is different from somebody breaking into a store. Those are not the same things, and our response has to be different.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org

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