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"The coup was timed to avoid Corbyn calling for Blair’s head next Wednesday from the. Indeed many would say that when Corbyn stated that he would be prepared to see a former Labour Prime Minister tried…"

"There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set."

"As far as they were concerned, gunfire was nothing but noise. That’s why wars can keep going. Even the people who make them, who fight in them, don’t really get the picture. Even with a bullet in thei…"

"Every time I touch a wound, an army of influential people turns against me."

"I think we must honestly face a fact if one gets behind in a race, he must eternally remain behind or run faster than the man in front. You've got to give him the equipment to catch up. Now the fact i…"

"For thirty-five years I have been more or less actively engaged in public life, in the performance of my political duties, now in a public position, now in a private position. I have fought with all t…"

"We did the ‘unplugged’ project, “Acoustica“, in Portugal. There was always something new and exciting. In-between all these records and projects we’re still touring all over the world: last year, with…"

"The late Christopher Evans, a psychologist and author, calculated that if the motor car had evolved as fast as the computer, and over the same time period, "Today you would be able to buy a Rolls-Royc…"

"Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming."

"Real independence is a time of new and active creation: people sure enough of themselves to discard their baggage; knowing the past is past, as shaping history, but with a new confident sense of the p…"

"Past, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. …"

"Immigration worked as a time machine, bringing up little islands of the past into the present."

"“I can’t believe this,” Mary said, whispering urgently. “Every time I talk to you I think I’ve heard the worst, and then you come along and say something even stupider."

"A guest of one's time and not a member of its household."

"it is a culture that strictly ignores present obligations and places itself entirely at the service of eternity"

"I love almost all of Stanley Kubrick, there’s almost no Stanley Kubrick I don’t love. I love Lolita, I love Dr. Strangelove. I love A Clockwork Orange, obviously. I even like a lot of Barry Lyndon . A…"

"Improv time is over. This is crunch time. Iraq will be won or lost in the next few months. But it won't be won with high rhetoric. It will be won on the ground in a war over the last mile."

"On the 9/11 hijackers: "Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a God. … It's human, universal, being able to think our way into the minds of others. A…"

"The world is filled with millions of 17, 19 and 21 year olds with the necessary programming skills, no day job yet, and a passion to create. Think of the Internet as the great egalitarian environment …"

"The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels. I must remember to take enough toilet paper next time."