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Week 1
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... You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are ...
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— Bertie Chales Forbes
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... Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius ...
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— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Week 2
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... You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are ...
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— Bertie Chales Forbes
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... Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius ...
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— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Week 3
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... Life's more amusing than we thought ...
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— Andrew Lang
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... I have taken a firm resolution to conquer or to die and stand my ground as long I have a man remaining with me ...
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— Bonnie Prince Charlie
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Week 4
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... Life's more amusing than we thought ...
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— Andrew Lang
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... I have taken a firm resolution to conquer or to die and stand my ground as long I have a man remaining with me ...
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— Bonnie Prince Charlie
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Week 5
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Week 6
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Week 7
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... You ought to be roasted alive, though even then you would not be to my taste ...
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— J. M. Barrie speaking to George Bernard Shaw
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... We are often unable to tell people what they need to know because they want to know something else ...
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— George MacDonald
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Week 8
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... You ought to be roasted alive, though even then you would not be to my taste ...
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— J. M. Barrie speaking to George Bernard Shaw
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... We are often unable to tell people what they need to know because they want to know something else ...
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— George MacDonald
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Week 9
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... A good gulp of whisky at bedtime – it’s not scientific but it helps ...
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— Alexander Fleming
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... You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass ...
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— John Buchan
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Week 10
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... A good gulp of whisky at bedtime – it’s not scientific but it helps ...
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— Alexander Fleming
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... You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass ...
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— John Buchan
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Week 11
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... All money is a matter of belief ...
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— Adam Smith
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... To a shower of gold, most things are penetrable ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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Week 12
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... All money is a matter of belief ...
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— Adam Smith
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... To a shower of gold, most things are penetrable ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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Week 13
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... By creating we think, by living we learn ...
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— Patrick Geddes
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... You only have to spend an afternoon with a child to realise that most of them, without even trying, are poets ...
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— Janice Galloway
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Week 14
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... By creating we think, by living we learn ...
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— Patrick Geddes
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... You only have to spend an afternoon with a child to realise that most of them, without even trying, are poets ...
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— Janice Galloway
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Week 15
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... There is never a problem child; there is only a problem parent ...
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— A. S. Neill
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... The kilt, being a practical outdoor garment, failed him only once, and that occurred during a short-lived interest in bee-keeping ...
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— J. M. Bannerman
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Week 16
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... There is never a problem child; there is only a problem parent ...
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— A. S. Neill
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... The kilt, being a practical outdoor garment, failed him only once, and that occurred during a short-lived interest in bee-keeping ...
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— J. M. Bannerman
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Week 17
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... The cure for which there is no disease ...
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—John Ferguson , on whisky
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... I can make a lord, but only God Almighty can make a gentleman ...
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— King James VI
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Week 18
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... The cure for which there is no disease ...
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—John Ferguson , on whisky
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... I can make a lord, but only God Almighty can make a gentleman ...
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— King James VI
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Week 19
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... Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes ...
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— Robert Louis Stevenson
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... The French drink all the time and kill their livers, the Scots drink in bouts and kill their neighbours ...
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— Sir John Crofton
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Week 20
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... Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes ...
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— Robert Louis Stevenson
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... The French drink all the time and kill their livers, the Scots drink in bouts and kill their neighbours ...
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— Sir John Crofton
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Week 21
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... The Heart of man is made to reconcile contradictions ...
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— David Hume
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... As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Tony Blair as two cheeks of the same arse ...
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— George Galloway
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Week 22
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... The Heart of man is made to reconcile contradictions ...
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— David Hume
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... As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Tony Blair as two cheeks of the same arse ...
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— George Galloway
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Week 23
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... It's all humbug ...
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— Peter Tait
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... The essential beginning of all national uprisings is that poets should believe ...
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— A. G. Macdonell
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Week 24
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... It's all humbug ...
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— Peter Tait
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... The essential beginning of all national uprisings is that poets should believe ...
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— A. G. Macdonell
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Week 25
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... The word 'impossible' has no permanent place in a climber's vocablary ...
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— Tom Patey
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... Anyone who aspires to being made a mummy, need only arrange to be buried in a bog ...
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— Andrew Young
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Week 26
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... The word 'impossible' has no permanent place in a climber's vocablary ...
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— Tom Patey
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... Anyone who aspires to being made a mummy, need only arrange to be buried in a bog ...
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— Andrew Young
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Week 27
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... A good nationalist must first of all be a good internationalist ...
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— Hamish Henderson
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... What is called 'Communism' in backward countries is hunger becoming articulate ...
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— John Boyd Orr
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Week 28
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... A good nationalist must first of all be a good internationalist ...
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— Hamish Henderson
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... What is called 'Communism' in backward countries is hunger becoming articulate ...
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— John Boyd Orr
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Week 29
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... Devolution is a motorway to independence with no exits ...
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— Tam Dalyell
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... I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound ...
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— Tobias Smollet
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Week 30
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... Devolution is a motorway to independence with no exits ...
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— Tam Dalyell
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... I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound ...
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— Tobias Smollet
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Week 31
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... All government is a monopoly of violence ...
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— Hugh MacDiarmid
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... Scottish separation is part of England's imperial disintegration ...
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— John MacLean
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Week 32
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... All government is a monopoly of violence ...
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— Hugh MacDiarmid
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... Scottish separation is part of England's imperial disintegration ...
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— John MacLean
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Week 33
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... The Eleventh Commandment: Thou Shalt not be found out ...
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— George Whyte-Melville
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... No man can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left nothing to disbelieve ...
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— Hector Hugh Munro
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Week 34
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... The Eleventh Commandment: Thou Shalt not be found out ...
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— George Whyte-Melville
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... No man can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left nothing to disbelieve ...
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— Hector Hugh Munro
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Week 35
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... Science is of no party ...
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— A.J. Balfour in 'Politics and Political Economy
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... "Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics ...
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— Eric Temple Bell
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Week 36
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... Science is of no party ...
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— A.J. Balfour in 'Politics and Political Economy
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... "Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics ...
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— Eric Temple Bell
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Week 37
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... A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell and leave you looking forward to the trip ...
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— attributed to Alex Salmond
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... when you can express what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it ...
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— Lord Kelvin
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Week 38
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... A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell and leave you looking forward to the trip ...
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— attributed to Alex Salmond
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... when you can express what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it ...
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— Lord Kelvin
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Week 39
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... A bag of gravel is history to me, and .... will tell wondrous tales .... mind, a bag of gravel is worth a bag of gold ...
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— James Hutton
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... I had the chloroform for several days in the house before trying it .... The first night we took it, Dr Duncan, Dr Keith and I all tried it simultaneously, and were all 'under the table' in a minute or two ...
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— Sir James Young Simpson
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Week 40
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... A bag of gravel is history to me, and .... will tell wondrous tales .... mind, a bag of gravel is worth a bag of gold ...
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— James Hutton
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... I had the chloroform for several days in the house before trying it .... The first night we took it, Dr Duncan, Dr Keith and I all tried it simultaneously, and were all 'under the table' in a minute or two ...
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— Sir James Young Simpson
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Week 41
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... He could start a party in an empty room, and he often did ...
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— Donald Dewar on John Smith , Labour Party leader
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... Scottishness isn't some pedigree lineage: it's a mongrel tradition ...
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— William McIlvanney at an SNP rally, 1992
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Week 42
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... He could start a party in an empty room, and he often did ...
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— Donald Dewar on John Smith , Labour Party leader
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... Scottishness isn't some pedigree lineage: it's a mongrel tradition ...
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— William McIlvanney at an SNP rally, 1992
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Week 43
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... Football management these days is like a nuclear war. No winners, only survivors ...
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— Tommy Docherty
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... As soon as you can say what you think, and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man I think ...
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— J. M. Barrie
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Week 44
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... Football management these days is like a nuclear war. No winners, only survivors ...
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— Tommy Docherty
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... As soon as you can say what you think, and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man I think ...
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— J. M. Barrie
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Week 45
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... It is harder to take words back than it is to get a refund ...
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— Jackie Kay
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... There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom ...
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— Andrew Bonar Law
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Week 46
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... It is harder to take words back than it is to get a refund ...
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— Jackie Kay
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... There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom ...
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— Andrew Bonar Law
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Week 47
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... Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else ...
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— J. M. Barrie
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... There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words ...
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— Thomas Reid
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Week 48
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... Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else ...
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— J. M. Barrie
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... There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words ...
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— Thomas Reid
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Week 49
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... Cynicism, together with unrealistic expectation, are the two great bugbears of politics ...
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— Donald Dewar
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... There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty ...
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— John Boyd Orr
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Week 50
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... Cynicism, together with unrealistic expectation, are the two great bugbears of politics ...
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— Donald Dewar
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... There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty ...
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— John Boyd Orr
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Week 51
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... He who loses his language loses his world ...
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— Iain Crichton Smith
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... Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience ...
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— Samuel Smiles
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Week 52
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... He who loses his language loses his world ...
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— Iain Crichton Smith
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... Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience ...
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— Samuel Smiles
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