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Week 1
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... Art is the only work open to people who can't get along with others and still want to be special. ...
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— Alasdair Gray
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... Maybe that's why in England you have better horses, and in Scotland we have better men. ...
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— James Boswell responding to Samuel Johnson: ("In England we wouldn't think of eating oats. We only feed them to Horses.")
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Week 2
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... Art is the only work open to people who can't get along with others and still want to be special. ...
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— Alasdair Gray
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... Maybe that's why in England you have better horses, and in Scotland we have better men. ...
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— James Boswell responding to Samuel Johnson: ("In England we wouldn't think of eating oats. We only feed them to Horses.")
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Week 3
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... Jimmy Hill is to football what King Herod was to babysitting. ...
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— Tommy Docherty
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... It was a great day in my life when I discovered that I did not know what fear was. ...
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— Elsie Maud Inglis
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Week 4
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... Jimmy Hill is to football what King Herod was to babysitting. ...
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— Tommy Docherty
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... It was a great day in my life when I discovered that I did not know what fear was. ...
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— Elsie Maud Inglis
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Week 5
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... Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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... Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community ...
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— Andrew Carnegie
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Week 6
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... Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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... Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community ...
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— Andrew Carnegie
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Week 7
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... A good gulp of whisky at bedtime – it’s not scientific but it helps ...
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— Sir Alexander Fleming
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... I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair ...
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— Charles Lamb
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Week 8
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... A good gulp of whisky at bedtime – it’s not scientific but it helps ...
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— Sir Alexander Fleming
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... I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair ...
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— Charles Lamb
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Week 9
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... A ripple of laughter is worth an ocean of tears. To laugh is to be free of worry ...
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— Harry Gordon
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... It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important ...
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— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Week 10
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... A ripple of laughter is worth an ocean of tears. To laugh is to be free of worry ...
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— Harry Gordon
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... It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important ...
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— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Week 11
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... Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable ...
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— William McIlvanney
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... Golf is a thoroughly national game; it is as Scotch as haggis, cockie-leekie, high cheek-bones or rowanberry jam ...
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— Andrew Lang
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Week 12
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... Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable ...
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— William McIlvanney
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... Golf is a thoroughly national game; it is as Scotch as haggis, cockie-leekie, high cheek-bones or rowanberry jam ...
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— Andrew Lang
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Week 13
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... History is written from then to now but understood back to front ...
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— Allan Massie
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... Growing old is great. It’s like getting drunk. Everyone around you gets better-looking ...
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— Billy Connolly
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Week 14
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... History is written from then to now but understood back to front ...
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— Allan Massie
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... Growing old is great. It’s like getting drunk. Everyone around you gets better-looking ...
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— Billy Connolly
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Week 15
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... It is possible for parents to be corrupted or improved by their children ...
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— Muriel Spark
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... I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way ...
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— John Paul Jones
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Week 16
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... It is possible for parents to be corrupted or improved by their children ...
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— Muriel Spark
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... I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way ...
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— John Paul Jones
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Week 17
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... One sometimes finds what one is not looking for ...
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— Sir Alexander Fleming
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... I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding ...
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— James Boswell
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Week 18
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... One sometimes finds what one is not looking for ...
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— Sir Alexander Fleming
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... I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding ...
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— James Boswell
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Week 19
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... We think the world is ours for ever, but we are little more than squatters ...
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— Alexander McCall Smith
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... A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless ...
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— James VI King of Scots (on Tobacco)
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Week 20
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... We think the world is ours for ever, but we are little more than squatters ...
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— Alexander McCall Smith
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... A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless ...
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— James VI King of Scots (on Tobacco)
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Week 21
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Week 22
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Week 23
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... Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations ...
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— James Mackintosh
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... Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It’s what we have because we can’t have justice ...
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— William McIlvanney
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Week 24
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... Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations ...
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— James Mackintosh
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... Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It’s what we have because we can’t have justice ...
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— William McIlvanney
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Week 25
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Week 26
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Week 27
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... I must follow them. I am their leader ...
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— Bonar Law
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... None can destroy Scotland, save Scotland's self ...
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— Lord Belhaven , opposing the union of 1707
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Week 28
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... I must follow them. I am their leader ...
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— Andrew Bonar Law
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... None can destroy Scotland, save Scotland's self ...
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— Lord Belhaven , opposing the union of 1707
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Week 29
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... Avarice, the spur of industry ...
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— David Hume
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... No enemy is half so fatal as a friend estranged ...
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— John Davidson
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Week 30
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... Avarice, the spur of industry ...
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— David Hume
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... No enemy is half so fatal as a friend estranged ...
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— John Davidson
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Week 31
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... Instinct is untaught ability ...
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— Alexander Bain
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... The great and good do not die even in this world. Enbalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad ...
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— Samuel Smiles
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Week 32
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... Instinct is untaught ability ...
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— Alexander Bain
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... The great and good do not die even in this world. Enbalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad ...
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— Samuel Smiles
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Week 33
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... Authors and captured criminals are the only people free from routine ...
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— Eric Linklater
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... The world is neither Scottish, English, nor Irish, neither French, Dutch, nor Chinese, but human ...
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— James Grant
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Week 34
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... Authors and captured criminals are the only people free from routine ...
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— Eric Linklater
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... The world is neither Scottish, English, nor Irish, neither French, Dutch, nor Chinese, but human ...
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— James Grant
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Week 35
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... All government is a monopoly of violence ...
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— Hugh MacDiarmid
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... In order to enjoy leisure, it is absolutely necessary it should be preceded by occupation ...
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— Sir Walter Scott
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Week 36
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... All government is a monopoly of violence ...
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— Hugh MacDiarmid
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... In order to enjoy leisure, it is absolutely necessary it should be preceded by occupation ...
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— Sir Walter Scott
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Week 37
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Week 38
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Week 39
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... One can love a country until it hurts ...
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— Alexander McCall Smith
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... I thought he was a young man of promise, but I see he was a young man of promises ...
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— A. J. Balfour , on Winston Churchill
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Week 40
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... One can love a country until it hurts ...
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— Alexander McCall Smith
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... I thought he was a young man of promise, but I see he was a young man of promises ...
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— A. J. Balfour , on Winston Churchill
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Week 41
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... Burns of all poets is the most a Man ...
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— Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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... No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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Week 42
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... Burns of all poets is the most a Man ...
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— Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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... No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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Week 43
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... Autobiography is an attempted jail break ...
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— Stuart Hood
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... A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience ...
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— Alexander Cockburn
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Week 44
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... Autobiography is an attempted jail break ...
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— Stuart Hood
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... A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience ...
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— Alexander Cockburn
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Week 45
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Week 46
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Week 47
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... To rule without being felt…is the great mystery of policy ...
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— John Galt
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... A real leader of men is someone who is afraid to go anywhere by himself ...
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— Cliff Hanley
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Week 48
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... To rule without being felt…is the great mystery of policy ...
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— John Galt
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... A real leader of men is someone who is afraid to go anywhere by himself ...
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— Cliff Hanley
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Week 49
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... Facts are stubborn things ...
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— Tobias Smollett
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... You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing ...
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— Marie Stopes
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Week 50
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... Facts are stubborn things ...
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— Tobias Smollett
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... You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing ...
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— Marie Stopes
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Week 51
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... Nae man can tether time nor tide ...
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— Robert Burns
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... In all ages of the world, priests have been the enemies of liberty ...
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— David Hume
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Week 52
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... Nae man can tether time nor tide ...
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— Robert Burns
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... In all ages of the world, priests have been the enemies of liberty ...
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— David Hume
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