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“Anyone who's had a shower and hasn't ingested illegal narcotics within a couple of days stands out on a bench in the courthouse.”
Source : Alafair Burke (2004). “Judgment Calls”, p.159, Macmillan
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“There is no better coach than the bench.”
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“The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.”
Source : Beatrice Webb (1956). “Diaries, 1924-1932”
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“Bench me or trade me.”
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“I don't care what you bench. I care if you have friends and family you love, a career that you love, and helped someone you don't know today.”
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“I don't want to be a passenger sitting on the bench not doing much, even in my older years.”
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“In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive.”
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“You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.”
Source : "George Osborne's speech to the Conservative party conference in full". www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2010. 
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“Jihadis have a better bureaucracy than India.”
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“Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.”
Source : Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”
