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Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

Tiggers don't like honey.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief – call it what you will – than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

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McCain fought in Vietnam – I think that he has enough civilian blood on his hands.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

We've gone further on this album, where we have a Big Band song, kind of a Sinatra-type song; we have a couple songs that have electronic music on them. We've got a couple rock songs, maybe a little heavier than what we've done. So the title 'Jekyll & Hyde' really covers the breadth of the record.

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

I stand on stage hoping to give good energy to the audience, but if I cannot give good energy anymore, I will have to leave right away.

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