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Baroness Thatcher, on being asked why, for 30 years, she had failed to mention her mother in her Who's Who entry
THE British sense of insufferable superiority would hardly be dented by the loss of an archive which could in any case be photocopied for research.
Times editorial on the sale of the Churchill papers
IF this government is stupid enough to put VAT on newspapers and magazines, I will have no alternative to ordering a company ban on entertainment of all politicians.
David English in the Spectator
WE would not knowingly turn away a potential Nobel Prize winner.
Spokesman for Edinburgh University, which turned down Dr Richard Roberts, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, for a job 25 years ago
IT is an impenetrable mystery why feminists try to destroymarriage, when it is the only legal institution which has
always insisted on an equal quota of women.
Prof Josef Isensee, ofthe University of Bonn
I KNOW you're very emotional. Just tell us your feelings.
ITV interviewer to the England football captain, David Platt
THIS is W1, it is not the right place to bring these types of people into.
Gary Perkins, Marylebone shopkeeper to the London Evening Standard about plans for a hostel for homeless people
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