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He might come in useful.'
'Yeah. So's a broken leg if you want to kick yourself in the back of the head.


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IAIN SINCLAIR I am delighted to have got Keith. He is a young lad who is strong and gets up and down the park from...
IAIN STEWART Nick Kristof has waged an almost single-handed campaign against the atrocities. If I was Nick Kristo...
IAIN LEVINE I think we kind of caught them off-guard with the first goal. We did a good job of finishing off tha...
IAIN JONES The conversation between your fingers and someone else’s skin. This is the most important discussi...
IAIN THOMAS The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best ...
IAIN PEARS I took all that data, fed it into a statistical model, turned the crank and out pops a prediction.
IAIN PARDOE He's got a laceration, a very serious gash, on his thigh. We'll see how it goes but it is not a pret...
IAIN DOWIE A hundred francs! Oh, dear me! It is worth millions of francs, my child. But my -- dealer -- here te...
IAIN PEARS If I was to say where we were, I'd say we were at about 80-85 per cent where we can be.
IAIN DOWIE We have to keep the crowd on their toes,
IAIN DOWIE Marco has shown us that he is a great kid in training and I felt that it was the right time for him ...
IAIN DOWIE If he had played in Northern Ireland (when England lost 1-0), he would have been a breath of fresh a...
IAIN DOWIE I'm more than happy for Sven to come here,
IAIN DOWIE I wouldn't mind one or two more and the chairman is very aware of that and we'll try and press on on...
IAIN DOWIE My commitment is unequivocal.
IAIN DOWIE There were plenty of fireworks on the pitch, but the only flares on display were those on Nigel's su...
IAIN DOWIE We were magnificent for three quarters of this season. But since then these players have not been wo...
IAIN STEWART With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, a...
IAIN SINCLAIR He's a big Palace fan and so is his mum and I think that if I hadn't got him she would have gone ban...
IAIN DOWIE I practically fell off my seat on the subway this morning. I could not believe it.
IAIN LEVINE [H]e initially conceived of Olivier as a man of the greatest promise destroyed by a fatal flaw, the ...
IAIN PEARS Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any ...
IAIN PEARS Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then tho...
IAIN PEARS Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as al...
IAIN PEARS Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- th...
IAIN PEARS Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for ...
IAIN PEARS He had volunteered early, rather than waiting to be conscripted, for he felt a duty and an obligatio...
IAIN PEARS Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.
IAIN PEARS She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set ...
IAIN PEARS And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship,...
IAIN PEARS [Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]....
IAIN PEARS Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulga...
IAIN PEARS I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began.

"And what of your soul, when ...
IAIN PEARS Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its n...
IAIN PEARS Politics bores you?" Bronsen said.

Julien smiled. "It does. Apologies, sir, and it is not...
IAIN PEARS The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for on...
IAIN PEARS