"Another four years would have been frosting on the cake, but we have a nice cake now, " said William Borucki, the project's principal scientist.

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We think that we can still have our cake and eat it too.

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We wanted to have our cake and eat it too.

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We are attempting to have our cake and eat it too.

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If I had known, we would have maybe rolled out a cake or something. (Laughter.) But have fun.

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Is it the icing on the cake that should not receive investment until we have paid off our debts?

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We have to get rid of districts that look like snakes and spiders and have them look more like a layer cake.

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We had planned to have Severn Trent come and spread sewage cake on the land for maize, but this could not happen as they have decided for foot-and-mouth reasons not to go onto livestock farms before the end of June.

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So we cannot be accused of eating cake when the world needs to have bread.

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For the reserves are the ores that we have drilled, tested, measured, weighed, baked a fluffy cake out of and know that we can mine with current technologies, at current prices, and still make a profit doing so.

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