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You don't have to love everything George W. Bush stands for to hate everything that Osama Bin Laden stands for.

— John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan

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Our system is not fit for purpose. It's inadequate in terms of its scope, it's inadequate in terms of its information technology, leadership, management systems and processes.

Pharmacy is but a small part of physic; medical cannot be separated from moral science without reciprocal and essential mutilation.

It's not my job to manage this department - it's my job to lead this department.

He said he did not believe the Home Office was "intrinsically dysfunctional... but I do believe from time to time it is dysfunctional in the sense it doesn't work".

It's not Muslims versus the rest of us. It's evil terrorists on one side against all civilised people on the other.

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And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

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