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« on: 13:50:52, 04-07-2008 »
A quote from Alain Lamassoure (Advisor to Sarkozy and MEP) about the lisbon wassit from the Irish Times today

"If you hold 10 or 12 referendums and in every state there is 80 per cent support for an idea there is still only a less than 1 per cent probability that the measure will pass everywhere."
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« Reply #1 on: 21:06:24, 04-07-2008 »
Ah, well, at least he got the plural of referendum right so he's not illiterate as well.
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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