Being articulate is no guarantee of intelligence,” Zoe said. “I’m not doubting the value of education. I’m doubting its reach. Highly educated politicians still do stupid things. Anthony Weiner was educated; Mugabi was educated; Assad was educated; Mussolini was educated. For all their education, look at them.

~ Michael Benzehabe

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Assad whistled a few notes of one of his native country's melancholic songs. It sounded as though he was whistling backwards

~ Jussi Adler-Olsen

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If you want to know what the camel stole from your kitchen yesterday, then you shouldn;t slit open its stomach. You should stare into its arsehole.

~ Jussi Adler-Olsen

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Assad: 'I have written it just down here.'He Pointed to a number of Arabic symbols that could just as well have meant it was going to snow in the Lofoten Islands in the morning.

~ Jussi Adler-Olsen

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