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LeftishBrit

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3. Great quotes!

Mon May 7, 2012, 03:14 AM

May 2012

I love the Carlin quote because it's so relevant to current British politics:

5. “Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.”
~George Carlin

Just about sums up David Cameron's 'Big Society' concept!

18. “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
~John Kenneth Galbraith

Too true!

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