Robin Cook Quotes

#1. Chicken Tikka Massala is now a true British national dish

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#2. She thought about how marvelous is would be to have a wife keeping the house in order, the meals on the table. At the same time it seemed ridiculously unfair that she could never have a wife. In fact, if she married, she would be expected to be the wife.

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#3. George snapped irritably. But the circumstances

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#4. There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.

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#5. Tony Blair has to consider very carefully to what extent he can leave Britain, the party and the nation guessing as to when exactly he might go.

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#6. Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion,'

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#7. Consider your duty done," said Mannerheim, looking back into his expanding incision. Philips

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#8. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck!

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#9. Chicken masala is now Britain's true national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences.

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#10. I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure the right of parliament to decide on war.

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#11. Surgeons know nothing but do everything. Internists know everything but do nothing. Pathologists know everything and do everything but too late.

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#12. Also," droned Helen, "Dr. Clinton Clark, Chief of Gynecology called, not his secretary, the doctor himself. And he sounded very angry. He wants you to call. And Mr. Drake wants a call too." The printout

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#13. Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them.

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#14. Saddam is neither friend nor brother to us, and he will never pay off debts to us. It's the question of precedent: today the United States doesn't like Iraq, tomorrow Syria, then Iran, North Korea and then what: everyone else?

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#15. I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.

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