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I think we need politicians we need people who want to serve.
Iain Banks
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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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My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it.
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Well, he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. Here we are again.
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Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.
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In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
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