The former Scottish Labour MP George, now Lord, Robertson once remarked that devolution would "kill Nationalism stone dead".

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Harold Macmillan once remarked that no sensible man directly challenged the National Union of Mineworkers or the Brigade of Guards.

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His illness required him to take "so many pills a day, you'd think I'd rattle, " Coleman once remarked to People magazine.

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Not only did he endure his captivity (and as Bob Dole once remarked, you tend to accord more respect to someone who spent five-and-a-half years in a box).

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Lu Gauthier, whose Boston Tax Institute provides the best tax CPE value in New England if not the world, once remarked that the Tax Reform Act of 1969 cut the value of his LLM in taxation in half.

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Thomas Nagel, a distinguished American philosopher, once remarked that to say now that consciousness is a physical state of the brain is to be in the position of an ancient Greek who proclaims that matter is energy: what he says is true, but there is no understanding of how it can be true, no framework into which to fit the discovery.

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Mr Blair's press secretary Alastair Campbell, when asked about his boss's faith, once famously remarked that the government didn't "do God".

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As I remarked yesterday, it sure seems that the once darling of Wall Street is now the proverbial redheaded stepchild.

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