Dead Quote by John Lanchester

“'Dead peasants insurance' is a term that sounds as if it comes straight out of Monty Python. If only that were true.”

John Lanchester

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In a democracy, people tend to get the kind of government they deserve.

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My standard Nando's order is a chicken breast burger served 'medium,' which is still fairly spicy.

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“Bastiat (1801–1850) was a strikingly clear-minded early advocate of what came to be known as liberal economics, whose central idea is that the state…

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“What was going on here was something Smitty had seen before: a young person’s first real farewell to the world of school and college,…

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“It seemed too as if many of the people were on display, behaving as if they expected to be looked at, as if they…

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But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put…

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Video games are the first new artistic medium since television, but they are more different from television than television was from cinema; they are…

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As an outsider to and observer of the restaurant business, one of the things I most admire about it is the risks people are…

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The first ATM in Hong Kong was actually at the foot of the bank. I remember my father using it. And I find it…

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Some things get clearer as you look back on them.

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Money is like poetry because both involve learning to communicate in a compressed language that packs a lot of meaning and consequence into the…

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'Fine dining.' I'd love to know who coined the term and whether they meant it to be as offputting as it is. The words…

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