- "As soon as a politician tells you that decent, law-abiding citizens have nothing to fear from a particular measure, you can be sure that someone, somewhere is losing a part of their freedom" - Julian Barnes, in The Guardian
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| Julian Barnes, image: topics.nytimes.com |
- "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner" - HL Mencken, quoted in The Herald, Monterey County, California
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| Cannibalism, Brazil. Engraving by Theodor de Bry for Hans Staden's account of his 1557 captivity, image: wikipedia.org |
taking a little break, will be back on Tuesday, 25 March 2014
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