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When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

— Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

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It follows then that whatever the moral reasons for conservation it will only be achieved by the inducement of profit or pleasure.

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The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.

Even the most unsympathetic and unenlightened politician, industrialist or bureaucrat begins to take notice when a lot of people write about the same subject.

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Looking out a dirty old window; down below the cars in the city go rushing by. I sit here alone and I wonder why.

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