"If an animal is named after what it eats, how interesting is it?"

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“I think some bacteria have better lives than that”

“Now Hilda, she was your bog standard old woman.”

“If you had 5 photos of anuses, I could not point mine out”

“You know that guy Richard Blackwood? He went in for a colonic, live TV. Never seen again.”

“Whats good with a holiday right.. say if you work in a factory from 8 in the morning till 8 at night, packin socks into a rubber bag right.. between 8 and.. what time did i say he finishes?”

“If you live in a glass house, don't be chucking stuff about. - Karl interprets the phrase Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.”

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"Brethren, is not this the Saviour that you need? one who can save you from the utmost depths of depravity, in the utmost corner of the earth, on the utmost inch of time? One who can save you amidst th…"

— James Hamilton (1814–1871)

Politics1814–1867

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"Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. … The accumulation of capital, or the acquisition of money, …"

— John Carroll

Entertainment1906–1979

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"attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base of another’s nature is revealed to him. The unclean are therefore ill a…"

— Georg Brandes

Literature1842–1927

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"The consciousness in of the elevation of a substandard dialect into a national tongue has been responsible for a mixture of attitudes to citizens of the mother country - inferiority, defiance, contemp…"

— Anthony Burgess

Music1917–1993

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