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Week 1
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... The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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... This is our land, this is our Scotland, these are our people, these are our men, our works, our women and children: can you beat it? ...
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— James Maxton
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Week 2
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... The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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... This is our land, this is our Scotland, these are our people, these are our men, our works, our women and children: can you beat it? ...
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— James Maxton
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Week 3
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... I'm not young enough to know everything. ...
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— J. M. Barrie
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... When one door closes another door opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. ...
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— Alexander Graham Bell
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Week 4
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... I'm not young enough to know everything. ...
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— J. M. Barrie
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... When one door closes another door opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. ...
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— Alexander Graham Bell
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Week 5
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... If something's neither here nor there, where the hell is it? ...
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— Chic Murray
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... The artist cannot attain to mastery in his art unless he is endowed in the highest degree with the faculty of invention. ...
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— Charles Rennie Mackintosh
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Week 6
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... If something's neither here nor there, where the hell is it? ...
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— Chic Murray
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... The artist cannot attain to mastery in his art unless he is endowed in the highest degree with the faculty of invention. ...
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— Charles Rennie Mackintosh
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Week 7
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... Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. ...
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— Sir James Dewar
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... The world is neither Scottish, English, nor Irish, neither French, Dutch, nor Chinese, but human. ...
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— Sir Alexander Gray
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Week 8
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... Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. ...
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— Sir James Dewar
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... The world is neither Scottish, English, nor Irish, neither French, Dutch, nor Chinese, but human. ...
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— Sir Alexander Gray
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Week 9
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... Preparing youngsters for failure is easy; it’s preparing them for success that’s really difficult. ...
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— Sir Alex Ferguson
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... The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong. ...
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— John Muir
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Week 10
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... Preparing youngsters for failure is easy; it’s preparing them for success that’s really difficult. ...
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— Sir Alex Ferguson
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... The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong. ...
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— John Muir
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Week 11
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... God help England if she had no Scots to think for her. ...
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— George Bernard Shaw
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... We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn’t it time that we should take risks to make peace? ...
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— Ramsay MacDonald
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Week 12
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... God help England if she had no Scots to think for her. ...
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— George Bernard Shaw
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... We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn’t it time that we should take risks to make peace? ...
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— Ramsay MacDonald
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Week 13
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Week 14
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Week 15
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... Science is the greatest antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. ...
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— Adam Smith
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... William Wallace sheds as bright a glory upon his valorous nation as ever was shed upon their country by the greatest men of Greece or Rome. ...
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— Giuseppe Garibaldi
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Week 16
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... Science is the greatest antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. ...
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— Adam Smith
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... William Wallace sheds as bright a glory upon his valorous nation as ever was shed upon their country by the greatest men of Greece or Rome. ...
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— Giuseppe Garibaldi
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Week 17
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... You talked of Scotland as a lost cause and that is not true. Scotland is an unwon cause. ...
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— John Steinbeck , in a letter to Mrs John F. Kennedy.
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... We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. ...
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— Ronald David Laing
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Week 18
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... You talked of Scotland as a lost cause and that is not true. Scotland is an unwon cause. ...
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— John Steinbeck , in a letter to Mrs John F. Kennedy.
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... We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. ...
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— Ronald David Laing
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Week 19
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... In Scotland, there is no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes. ...
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— Billy Connolly
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... … this nation must rank among the most enlightened in the universe. Politics, religion and literature have made of Scotland something beyond compare. ...
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— Charles de Rémusat
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Week 20
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... In Scotland, there is no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes. ...
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— Billy Connolly
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... … this nation must rank among the most enlightened in the universe. Politics, religion and literature have made of Scotland something beyond compare. ...
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— Charles de Rémusat
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Week 21
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... To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education. ...
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— John Buchan
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... Edinburgh is a cross between Copenhagen and Barcelona, except in Copenhagen they speak more understandable English. ...
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— John Malkovich
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Week 22
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... To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education. ...
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— John Buchan
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... Edinburgh is a cross between Copenhagen and Barcelona, except in Copenhagen they speak more understandable English. ...
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— John Malkovich
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Week 23
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... Some of my plays peter out and some pan out. ...
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— J. M. Barrie , author of Peter Pan.
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... There are two rules for drinking whisky. First, never take whisky without water, and second, never take water without whisky. ...
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— Chic Murray
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Week 24
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... Some of my plays peter out and some pan out. ...
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— J. M. Barrie , author of Peter Pan.
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... There are two rules for drinking whisky. First, never take whisky without water, and second, never take water without whisky. ...
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— Chic Murray
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Week 25
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... A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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... Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I’m very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that. ...
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— Bill Shankly
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Week 26
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... A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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... Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I’m very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that. ...
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— Bill Shankly
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Week 27
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... Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. ...
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— Lord Kelvin , spoken in 1895.
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... I would rather have a Scot come from Scotland to govern the people of this kingdom well and justly than that you should govern them ill in the sight of all the world. ...
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— Louis IX of France , speaking to his eldest son, Louis.
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Week 28
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... Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. ...
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— Lord Kelvin , spoken in 1895.
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... I would rather have a Scot come from Scotland to govern the people of this kingdom well and justly than that you should govern them ill in the sight of all the world. ...
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— Louis IX of France , speaking to his eldest son, Louis.
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Week 29
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... Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. ...
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— Robert Louis Stevenson
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... None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild. ...
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— John Muir
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Week 30
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... Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. ...
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— Robert Louis Stevenson
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... None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild. ...
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— John Muir
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Week 31
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... His worst is better than any other person's best. ...
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— William Hazlitt , in praise of the work of Sir Walter Scott.
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... That action is best, which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. ...
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— Francis Hutcheson
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Week 32
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... His worst is better than any other person's best. ...
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— William Hazlitt , in praise of the work of Sir Walter Scott.
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... That action is best, which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. ...
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— Francis Hutcheson
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Week 33
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... A place for everything, and everything in its place. ...
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— Samuel Smiles
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... All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others. ...
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— Sir David Steel , speaking in 1985.
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Week 34
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... A place for everything, and everything in its place. ...
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— Samuel Smiles
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... All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others. ...
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— Sir David Steel , speaking in 1985.
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Week 35
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... Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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... Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective. ...
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— John Buchan
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Week 36
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... Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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... Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective. ...
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— John Buchan
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Week 37
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... God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December. ...
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— J. M. Barrie
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... A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself. ...
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— Alexander Graham Bell
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Week 38
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... God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December. ...
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— J. M. Barrie
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... A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself. ...
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— Alexander Graham Bell
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Week 39
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... When Scotland forgets Burns, then history will forget Scotland. ...
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— John Stuart Blackie
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... Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen. ...
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— Compton Mackenzie
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Week 40
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... When Scotland forgets Burns, then history will forget Scotland. ...
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— John Stuart Blackie
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... Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen. ...
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— Compton Mackenzie
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Week 41
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... My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare. ...
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— Mike Myers
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... A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing. ...
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— William Barclay
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Week 42
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... My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare. ...
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— Mike Myers
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... A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing. ...
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— William Barclay
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Week 43
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... Without humility there can be no humanity. ...
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— John Buchan
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... I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am. ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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Week 44
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... Without humility there can be no humanity. ...
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— John Buchan
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... I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am. ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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Week 45
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... Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler. ...
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— Eric Temple Bell
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... There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement. ...
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— Lord Kelvin , address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1900
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Week 46
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... Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler. ...
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— Eric Temple Bell
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... There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement. ...
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— Lord Kelvin , address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1900
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Week 47
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... Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. ...
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— Alexander Graham Bell
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... A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. ...
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— James Boswell
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Week 48
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... Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. ...
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— Alexander Graham Bell
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... A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. ...
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— James Boswell
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Week 49
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... I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward. ...
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— David Livingstone
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... A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder. ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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Week 50
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... I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward. ...
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— David Livingstone
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... A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder. ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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Week 51
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... Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown. ...
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— John Buchan
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... There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why. ...
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— William Barclay
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Week 52
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... Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown. ...
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— John Buchan
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... There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why. ...
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— William Barclay
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