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If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

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Prince Philip
Age: 99 †
Born: 1921
Born: June 10
Died: 2021
Died: April 9
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Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers.
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So who's on drugs here?... He looks as if he's on drugs.
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Are you running away from something?
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There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.
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It doesn't look like much work goes on at this university.
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The world population 60 years ago was just over 2 billion and it's now more than 6 billion. This huge increase - an explosion really - has probably done more harm to the environment than anything else.
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I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.
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Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.
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But we are not going to be able to survive on this limited planet if the population keeps on growing: there isn't going to be anything left.
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I don't care what kind it is, just get me a beer.
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In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools.
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It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.
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You have mosquitoes. I have the Press.
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It is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer.
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Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.
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Do you still throw spears at each other?
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