"After eight years in government, Mr Blair has precious little to show for his ambitious plans to heal the divisions in society."

-- Melanie Phillips

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“What would they do to me," he asked in confidential tones, "if I refused to fly them?" We'd probably shoot you," ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen replied. We?" Yossarian cried in surprise. "What do you mean, we? Since when are you on their side?" If you're going to be shot, whose side do you expect me to be on?" ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen retorted”
“The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.”
“Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with cheerful face, And utter with a double tongue The feigned good wishes of his wary mind.”
“People have to respect intellectual property.”

Source : "Chinese pop stars protest piracy". www.wired.com. April 04, 2002.
“A dinner lubricates business.”

Source : "Life of Samuel Johnson". Book by James Boswell, Vol. viii, p. 67, 1791.
“When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak, We shall live well--we shall live very well.”

Source : Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.18, Kent State University Press
“The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.”

Source : John Lyly, George K. Hunter, David Bevington (1991). “Campaspe and Sappho and Phao: John Lyly”, p.285, Manchester University Press
“It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to drag him along.”

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