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George Santayana: 'When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.'

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George Santayana: 'Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.'

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George Santayana: 'The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.'

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Walter Benjamin: 'Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.'

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Walter Benjamin: 'Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.'

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Walter Benjamin: 'Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.'

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Walter Benjamin: 'The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.'

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Walter Benjamin: 'Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.'

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Queen Elizabeth II: 'For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.'

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Queen Elizabeth II: 'Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.'

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Terry Pratchett: 'Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.'

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Terry Pratchett: 'Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.'

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Terry Pratchett: 'I don't believe in the war god of the Israelites. He's a bogeyman. Jesus preached the golden rule, by and large.'

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Terry Pratchett: 'I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.'

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Terry Pratchett: 'Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.'

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Terry Pratchett: 'I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.'

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Terry Pratchett: ''Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.'

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Terry Pratchett: 'If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.'

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Terry Pratchett: 'If it wasn't for the fun and money, I really don't know why I'd bother.'

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Terry Pratchett: 'Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.'

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