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Russell, you do not understand the theory of the five minute debate. The object is to convey to the House in the space of five minutes either information or disinformation. You have consumed several periods of five minutes this afternoon without doing either.

— Thomas Brackett Reed

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One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils of the world can be cured by legislation.

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