"At no point did the [Burns] committee conclude, or even attempt to conclude, an assessment of cruelty. Yet many bodies have erroneously quoted the Burns report, stating that it clearly demonstrated that the practice of hunting wild animals with dogs caused cruelty. The report did not state that."

-- Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior

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“My dad and mom were, they would take what were popular hits, and lip-sync to them with puppets and do a ridiculous story.”
“I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.”
“A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.”

Source : Edward Alsworth Ross (1920). “The Principles of Sociology”
“The Resurrection was the greatest â€˜eucatastropheâ€™ possible in the greatest Fairy Story â€” and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love.”
“A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough.”
“Charity cures heartaches.”
“The impulse to perfection cannot exist where the definition of perfection is the arbitrary decision of authority. That which is born in loneliness and from the heart cannot be defended against the judgment of a committee of sycophants. The volatile essences which make literature cannot survive the clichÃ©s of a long series of story conferences.”
“My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on the purest of all moral systems, for the purpose of deriving from it pence and power, revolts those who think for themselves, and who read in that system only what is really there.”

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