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“You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.”
Source : "Will Trump's presidency finally kill the myth of the special relationship?" by Geoffrey Wheatcroft, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2017.
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“I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.”
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“One thing about being a painter is that if you have a dog you are naturally going to spend a lot of time with him or her. It has always amazed me the closeness of that relationship even though a word was never spoken, intellect not any part of it.”
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“No doubt, you've got a parliament now - I mean, Malcolm Turnbull says he'll work with the parliament he's got. He's got a parliament where a majority of the members of parliament want that law to be changed. He's got a parliament where there's a majority in each House who have publicly said they want to have a Royal Commission into banks.”
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“I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life.”
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“If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will gradually encourage the simple daily act of eating more plants and fewer animals.”
Source : Mark Bittman (2015). “A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more”, p.58, Clarkson Potter
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“Skip your brain and go right to the gut,”
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“Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours”
Source : Rodman Philbrick (2013). “The Last Book in the Universe”, p.223, Scholastic Inc.