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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?",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":39,"quote_text":40,"author_id":5,"source_id":21,"has_image":22,"author":41,"source":42,"quote_tag":43,"commentary":9},3391415,"I can’t accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":45,"quote_text":46,"author_id":5,"source_id":21,"has_image":22,"author":47,"source":48,"quote_tag":49,"commentary":9},3391403,"The worst thing about disease is the uncertainty. Humans are capable of adapting to anything as long as they know. It’s the hopeless floundering that drives people crazy.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":51,"quote_text":52,"author_id":5,"source_id":21,"has_image":22,"author":53,"source":54,"quote_tag":55,"commentary":9},3391389,"Chicken Tikka Massala is now a true British national dish.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":57,"quote_text":58,"author_id":5,"source_id":21,"has_image":22,"author":59,"source":60,"quote_tag":61,"commentary":9},3391377,"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.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":63,"quote_text":64,"author_id":5,"source_id":21,"has_image":22,"author":65,"source":66,"quote_tag":67,"commentary":68},3391369,"If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it’s a duck!",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],"**The Backstory**\nThis quote is often attributed to the American lawyer and politician, J. P. Rowlatt, but it's more famously associated with the phrase coined by the American philosopher and lawyer, Roscoe Pound, who wrote \"if a thing looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it is a duck\" in his 1906 essay \"The Scope and Purpose of Sociological Jurisprudence.\" However, the phrase gained widespread popularity after it was used by the famous American lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, in his 1994 book \"Reasonable Doubt.\" At the time, Dershowitz was likely drawing from his experiences as a defense attorney, where he had to navigate the complexities of the American justice system.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\nThe hidden insight in this quote lies in its subtle subversion of the idea that appearances are everything. On the surface, the quote seems to be a straightforward statement of a common-sense principle: if something looks and acts like something else, it's likely that thing. However, the quote also contains a deeper paradox: it's not just the external characteristics that define something, but also the internal, often unseen, qualities. The quote is saying that even if something looks like a duck, but doesn't quack like one, or if it quacks like a duck but doesn't walk like one, then it's not necessarily a duck.\n\n**How to Use This**\nTo apply this mindset today, recognize that the most obvious solutions are not always the correct ones. When faced with a complex problem, don't just rely on surface-level observations, but also dig deeper to uncover the underlying dynamics and motivations at play. By doing so, you'll be able to distinguish between things that merely appear to be something, and those that truly are.",{"id":70,"quote_text":71,"author_id":5,"source_id":72,"has_image":22,"author":73,"source":74,"quote_tag":75,"commentary":9},1271452,"Anyone on the streets knows we were not elected because Tony Blair was popular this time around,",4,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[76],{"id":77,"tag":78},4269379,{"id":79,"tag_name":80},12821,"anyone",{"id":82,"quote_text":83,"author_id":5,"source_id":72,"has_image":22,"author":84,"source":85,"quote_tag":86,"commentary":9},1271451,"I want to spell out to the people of Britain why our forces are bravely risking their lives destroying Saddam's threat to humanity. Our objective is to achieve by military action the disarmament Saddam will not allow the UN inspectors to carry out on the ground.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[87],{"id":88,"tag":89},4269378,{"id":90,"tag_name":91},4469,"achieve",{"currentPage":93,"totalPages":94,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":95},1,14,10]