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After doing extensive research, I can definitely tell you that single malt whiskies are good to drink.

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Iain Banks
Age: 59 †
Born: 1954
Born: February 16
Died: 2013
Died: June 9
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Iain M. Banks
Iain Menzies Banks
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There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact there is never a scarcity of idiots.
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You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
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The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others
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I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid.
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