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“We now have 28 flavors --that’s more than Howard Johnson’s has.” - Fidel Castro, on the success of his socialist ice creamy, as recalled by journalist Georgie Anne Geyer in 'Buying the Night Flight'

"It is important the public recognize the existence of weighty scientific views which old there is no proof that cigarette smoking is a cause of lung cancer," - John Wiley Hill, 24 December 1953

"The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years." - Milton Friedman, "economist", The Power of Choice (January 2007)

"You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. [...] We must dare to invent the future." - Thomas Sankara, President of Burkina Faso, 1985

"Shackled by its ball and chain like convicted lifers or carrying its ruins in their stomachs like archaeologists," - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian futurist and fascist, on the subject of pasta.

"I'll buy the first round Monday night before we say our goodbyes" - Joe Ellis, BP America Vice President and Head of US Government Affairs joking about climate change to colleague, 10 August 2017

“They’re coming to take our country again, just this time without the muskets,” - Raymond Weatherill.

"We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective about who we allow to go through higher education." - Roger Freeman, advisor to Richard Nixon, 1970

"Fuck your parliament and your constitution" - US President Lyndon B Johnson on Cyprus during meeting with the Greek Ambassador, June 1964. As quoted in "I Should Have Died".

"What is an attack on the king, if not a work-related accident?" - Benito Mussolini during his socialist phase as quoted in "M. Son of The Century".