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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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We go into the red next year... I shall have to give up polo.
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Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then!
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Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.
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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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I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family.
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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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