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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.

Alan Bennett

[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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Context Explain Holocaust Say Something Step Talking Toward Understand
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Entire Microbe More Person Population World
At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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Bent Block Coat Drabber Excrement Hanger Insane Life Moment Root Some Step Swill
One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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Hardest Learn Not One Teacher Tell Them Thing Try
A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Bookshelf Library Particular People Perform Stamp
Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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Book Commonwealth Equal Herself Literature Read Reader Republic
No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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Do God Him Keep Long Mention No Sleeve Vicar
Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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Deluded Entire Fellow Goldy Liberal More Ought Persist Sexual Sober Streak Think Unorthodoxy
Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Clitch Fun Got Quite
Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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Acknowledge Care Cattle Count Foo
I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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Day Down Have Knighthood Life Suit Turn Wear
One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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Add Bottom Entitlement Happiness Note One Position Recipe Sense Star
You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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Condition Else Generally Kind Nothing Patient People Remember Wisdom
[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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Antithesis Brief Fact Factual Point Raed Terse
Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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Cloth Minister Owner Physician Religion Remember
Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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Explain Future Gone Imagine Incident Increase Larger Mention Number

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