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There was no meaningful consultation. They were essentially presented with a fait accompli.


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RICHARD CARLSON I believe it has been said that one copy of the "Times" contains more useful information than the w...
RICHARD COBDEN Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.
RICHARD BRANSON I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live n...
RICHARD FEYNMAN I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when a...
RICHARD LAMM "Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the ...
RICHARD BENTLEY There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because y...
RICHARD BACH What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.
RICHARD SHELTON Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as th...
RICHARD MARCINKO If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, t...
RICHARD MARCINKO The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been...
RICHARD DAWKINS Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Human...
RICHARD DAWKINS False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives n...
RICHARD BURTON If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, -- Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such li...
RICHARD LOVELACE He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
RICHARD WHATELY We're all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career ...
RICHARD ENGEL What I conclude is that religion has nothing to do with experience or reason but with deep and irrat...
RICHARD TAYLOR Learning is finding out what you already know -Richard Bach.
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