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last updated: November 28, 2023

John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the 'Con' into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the 'vat' into Conservative!
-- David Miliband

Source : "David Miliband: 'You've punished us enough about Iraq'". Interview with Patrick Wintour, Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2010.

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Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement
-- Edward Heath

Source : "'Whatever the lady does is wrong'". www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2005.

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Burned and squashed to death in a silver vat of soup. There must be worst ways to go. But not many.
-- Jonathan Stroud

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“In Iraq, four American soldiers have been arrested and charged with stealing a million dollars cash. After hearing about it the Fox network announced plans for a new reality show called 'GI Joe Millionaire.'”
“Little things can make such a big difference during recording.”
“It is in the area of feeling that religion enters the heart and is expressed by man.”
“Play for young children is not recreation activity, It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity. Play is thinking time for young children. It is language time. Problem-solving time. It is memory time, planning time, investigating time. It is organization-of-ideas time, when the young child uses his mind and body and his social skills and all his powers in response to the stimuli he has met.”
“We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope”
“I am always being asked to gain or lose weight, but I am at a point now where I don't care anymore. I love my body, I love my super-hourglass shape and I love showing it off,”
“I want to reassure fans that I am 100% involved and will continue working on Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain; I'm determined to make it the greatest game I've directed to date. Don't miss it!”
“My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.”
“Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.”

Source : Mary Doria Russell (1998). “Children of God: A Novel”, Villard Books
“Stock prices are likely to be among the prices that are relatively vulnerable to purely social movements because there is no accepted theory by which to understand the worth of stocks....investors have no model or at best a very incomplete model of behavior of prices, dividend, or earnings, of speculative assets.”

Source : "Martket Volatility". Book by Robert J. Shiller, www.businessinsider.com. 1992.