"The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object."

-- William Wilberforce

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“Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.”
“[Bertholt] Brecht looked very thin, like a herring with very sensitive hands.”
“As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would be destroyed.”
“Despite what many nutritionists have preached for years, rapid weight-loss diets can be healthy if done correctly and can work wonders on reducing pounds and inches in just days.”

Source : Mike Moreno (2013). “The 17 Day Diet Breakthrough Edition”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
“I'm opposed to wearing headscarves in public places. That's not France. There's something I just don't understand: the people who come to France, why would they want to change France, to live in France the same way they lived back home?”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“If American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran”

Source : "Rep. Goode: No Apology For Muslim Letter". www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2006.
“Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?”
“But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there?s going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that.”

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