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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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... There is hope in honest error, none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist ...
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— Charles Rennie Mackintosh
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... for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself ...
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— Declaration of Arbroath
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Week 6
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... There is hope in honest error, none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist ...
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— Charles Rennie Mackintosh
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... for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself ...
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— Declaration of Arbroath
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Week 7
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... Books are a finer world within the world ...
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— Alexander Smith
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... All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education ...
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— Sir Walter Scott
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Week 8
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... Books are a finer world within the world ...
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— Alexander Smith
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... All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education ...
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— Sir Walter Scott
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Week 9
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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 10
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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 11
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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 12
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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 13
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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 14
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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 15
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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 16
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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 17
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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 18
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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 19
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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 20
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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 21
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Week 22
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Week 23
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... Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes ...
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— Robert Louis Stevenson
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... The strangest thing I have seen in this country seems really to be broken-heartedness and it attacks free men who have been captured and made slaves ...
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— David Livingstone (On central Africa)
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Week 24
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... Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes ...
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— Robert Louis Stevenson
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... The strangest thing I have seen in this country seems really to be broken-heartedness and it attacks free men who have been captured and made slaves ...
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— David Livingstone (On central Africa)
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Week 25
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Week 26
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Week 27
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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 28
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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 29
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... All money is a matter of belief ...
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— Adam Smith
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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 30
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... All money is a matter of belief ...
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— Adam Smith
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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 31
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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 32
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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 33
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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 34
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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 35
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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 36
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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 37
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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 38
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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 39
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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 40
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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 41
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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 42
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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 43
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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 44
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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 45
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Week 46
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Week 47
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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 48
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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 49
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Week 50
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Week 51
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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 52
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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 53
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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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