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Week 1

“ ... Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought ... ”

— Margaret Oliphant

“ ... To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour ... ”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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Week 2

“ ... Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought ... ”

— Margaret Oliphant

“ ... To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour ... ”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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Week 3

“ ... Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist ... ”

— Thomas Carlyle

“ ... A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor ... ”

— Alexander McCall Smith

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Week 4

“ ... Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist ... ”

— Thomas Carlyle

“ ... A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor ... ”

— Alexander McCall Smith

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Week 5

“ ... A rat race is for rats. We’re not rats ... ”

— Jimmy Reid

“ ... I believe that every Scotsman should be a Scottish Nationalist ... ”

— John Buchan

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Week 6

“ ... A rat race is for rats. We’re not rats ... ”

— Jimmy Reid

“ ... I believe that every Scotsman should be a Scottish Nationalist ... ”

— John Buchan

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Week 7

“ ... Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes ... ”

— J. M. Barrie

“ ... Our Scottish theory…is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country ... ”

— A. J. Balfour

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Week 8

“ ... Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes ... ”

— J. M. Barrie

“ ... Our Scottish theory…is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country ... ”

— A. J. Balfour

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Week 9

“ ... A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road ... ”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“ ... I am not here, then, as the accused; I am here as the accuser of capitalism dripping with blood from head to foot ... ”

— John Maclean

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Week 10

“ ... A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road ... ”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“ ... I am not here, then, as the accused; I am here as the accuser of capitalism dripping with blood from head to foot ... ”

— John Maclean

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Week 11

“ ... I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance ... ”

— Thomas Carlyle

“ ... Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits ... ”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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Week 12

“ ... I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance ... ”

— Thomas Carlyle

“ ... Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits ... ”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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Week 13

“ ... Well, we say yes and we are the people ... ”

— Canon Kenyon Wright

“ ... Socialism proposes to dethrone the brute-god Mammon and to lift humanity into its place ... ”

— Keir Hardie

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Week 14

“ ... Well, we say yes and we are the people ... ”

— Canon Kenyon Wright

“ ... Socialism proposes to dethrone the brute-god Mammon and to lift humanity into its place ... ”

— Keir Hardie

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Week 15

“ ... Art is the flower... life the green leaf ... ”

— Charles Rennie Mackintosh

“ ... What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another ... ”

— Cargill Gilston Knott

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Week 16

“ ... Art is the flower... life the green leaf ... ”

— Charles Rennie Mackintosh

“ ... What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another ... ”

— Cargill Gilston Knott

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Week 17

“ ... Give me but one hour of Scotland,
Let me see it ere I die ... ”

— W.E. Aytoun

“ ... We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free.
Let your masters come and attack us: we are ready to meet them beard to beard ... ”

— William Wallace

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Week 18

“ ... Give me but one hour of Scotland,
Let me see it ere I die ... ”

— W.E. Aytoun

“ ... We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free.
Let your masters come and attack us: we are ready to meet them beard to beard ... ”

— William Wallace

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Week 19

“ ... He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts — for support rather than illumination ... ”

— Andrew Lang

“ ... It won't last. Brothers and sisters are natural enemies!

Like Englishmen and Scots! Or Welshmen and Scots! Or Japanese and Scots! Or Scots and other Scots! Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland! ...

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— Dr. William McDougal

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Week 20

“ ... He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts — for support rather than illumination ... ”

— Andrew Lang

“ ... It won't last. Brothers and sisters are natural enemies!

Like Englishmen and Scots! Or Welshmen and Scots! Or Japanese and Scots! Or Scots and other Scots! Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland! ...

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— Dr. William McDougal

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Week 21

“ ... Celtic jerseys are not for second best, They don't shrink to fit inferior players ... ”

— Jock Stein

“ ... In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers ... ”

— James Boswell

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Week 22

“ ... Celtic jerseys are not for second best, They don't shrink to fit inferior players ... ”

— Jock Stein

“ ... In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers ... ”

— James Boswell

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Week 23

“ ... Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won ... ”

— William Wallace

“ ... The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't seen the joke yet ... ”

— Oliver Herford

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Week 24

“ ... Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won ... ”

— William Wallace

“ ... The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't seen the joke yet ... ”

— Oliver Herford

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Week 25

“ ... There is hope in honest error, none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist ... ”

— Charles Rennie Mackintosh

“ ... for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule.

It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself ...

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— Declaration of Arbroath

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Week 26

“ ... There is hope in honest error, none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist ... ”

— Charles Rennie Mackintosh

“ ... for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule.

It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself ...

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— Declaration of Arbroath

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Week 27

“ ... History is the essence of innumerable biographies ... ”

— Thomas Carlyle

“ ... By means of patience, common-sense and time, impossibility becomes possibility ... ”

— Colin Campbell

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Week 28

“ ... History is the essence of innumerable biographies ... ”

— Thomas Carlyle

“ ... By means of patience, common-sense and time, impossibility becomes possibility ... ”

— Colin Campbell

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Week 29

“ ... Good God. What, is this an entire surrender? ... ”

— Lord Belhaven
(Speech in the Scottish Parliament, 2 November 1706)

“ ... Whaur's yer Wullie Shakespeare noo? ... ”

— Anonymous
(Patriotic shout from an audience member at the 1st Edinburgh performance of the John Home tragedy Douglas)

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Week 30

“ ... Good God. What, is this an entire surrender? ... ”

— Lord Belhaven
(Speech in the Scottish Parliament, 2 November 1706)

“ ... Whaur's yer Wullie Shakespeare noo? ... ”

— Anonymous
(Patriotic shout from an audience member at the 1st Edinburgh performance of the John Home tragedy Douglas)

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Week 31

“ ... There are only two classes, the genuine and the humbug ... ”

— Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

“ ... A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that Fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun ... ”

— Thomas Carlyle

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Week 32

“ ... There are only two classes, the genuine and the humbug ... ”

— Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

“ ... A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that Fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun ... ”

— Thomas Carlyle

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Week 33

“ ... There are only two types of music: rock and roll ... ”

— Alex Harvey

“ ... Law is the reflection of the spirit of a people, and so long as the Scots are conscious that they are a people, they must preserve their law ... ”

— Robin Cook

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Week 34

“ ... There are only two types of music: rock and roll ... ”

— Alex Harvey

“ ... Law is the reflection of the spirit of a people, and so long as the Scots are conscious that they are a people, they must preserve their law ... ”

— Robin Cook

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Week 35

“ ... Be not the slave of words ... ”

— Thomas Carlyle

“ ... He is an egregious dissembler and a great liar. Away with him, he is a greeting divil! ... ”

— Robert Blair

(On Oliver Cromwell to a fellow Covenanter)

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Week 36

“ ... Be not the slave of words ... ”

— Thomas Carlyle

“ ... He is an egregious dissembler and a great liar. Away with him, he is a greeting divil! ... ”

— Robert Blair

(On Oliver Cromwell to a fellow Covenanter)

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Week 37

“ ... What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom ... ”

— Adam Smith

“ ... Until a woman is free to be as incompetent as the average male, then she will never be completely equal ... ”

— Roseanna Cunningham

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Week 38

“ ... What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom ... ”

— Adam Smith

“ ... Until a woman is free to be as incompetent as the average male, then she will never be completely equal ... ”

— Roseanna Cunningham

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Week 39

“ ... Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high society ... ”

— Andrew Carnegie

“ ... The proletarian has no country; all are equally prisons to him alike ... ”

— Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

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Week 40

“ ... Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high society ... ”

— Andrew Carnegie

“ ... The proletarian has no country; all are equally prisons to him alike ... ”

— Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

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Week 41

“ ... the inarticulate expression of the inequalities of life ... ”

— Jimmy Boyle

(Speaking of crime)

“ ... Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.

Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time ...

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— Thomas Carlyle

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Week 42

“ ... the inarticulate expression of the inequalities of life ... ”

— Jimmy Boyle

(Speaking of crime)

“ ... Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.

Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time ...

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— Thomas Carlyle

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Week 43

“ ... The true University of these days is a Collection of Books ... ”

— Thomas Carlyle

“ ... One thing I do envy the Royals is their wee chins: shaving must be a doddle - whoosh, and it's all done in one stroke ... ”

— Billy Connolly

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Week 44

“ ... The true University of these days is a Collection of Books ... ”

— Thomas Carlyle

“ ... One thing I do envy the Royals is their wee chins: shaving must be a doddle - whoosh, and it's all done in one stroke ... ”

— Billy Connolly

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Week 45

“ ... Fire is the best of servants; but what a master! ... ”

— Thomas Carlyle

“ ... I never see a scene of Scotch beauty, withiut being thankful that I have beheld it before it has been breathed over by the angel of mechanical destruction ... ”

— Henry Thomas Cockburn

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Week 46

“ ... Fire is the best of servants; but what a master! ... ”

— Thomas Carlyle

“ ... I never see a scene of Scotch beauty, withiut being thankful that I have beheld it before it has been breathed over by the angel of mechanical destruction ... ”

— Henry Thomas Cockburn

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Week 47

“ ... His mind was a kind of extinct sulphur pit ... ”

— Thomas Carlyle

     (Speaking of Napoleon III)

“ ... The Scottish Parliament, adjourned on the 25th day of March in the year 1707, is hereby reconvened ... ”

— Winnie Ewing

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Week 48

“ ... His mind was a kind of extinct sulphur pit ... ”

— Thomas Carlyle

     (Speaking of Napoleon III)

“ ... The Scottish Parliament, adjourned on the 25th day of March in the year 1707, is hereby reconvened ... ”

— Winnie Ewing

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Week 49

“ ... I believe sleep was never more welcome to a weary traveller than death was to her ... ”

— Dr John Arbuthnot

    (Speaking of Queen Anne)

“ ... We must of necessity fall under the miserable and languishing condition of all places that depend upon a remote seat of government ... ”

— Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun

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Week 50

“ ... I believe sleep was never more welcome to a weary traveller than death was to her ... ”

— Dr John Arbuthnot

    (Speaking of Queen Anne)

“ ... We must of necessity fall under the miserable and languishing condition of all places that depend upon a remote seat of government ... ”

— Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun

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Week 51

“ ... Stop the world, Scotland wants to get on ... ”

— Winnie Ewing

“ ... We are bought and sold for English gold. Such a parcel of rogues in a nation ... ”

— Robert Burns

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Week 52

“ ... Stop the world, Scotland wants to get on ... ”

— Winnie Ewing

“ ... We are bought and sold for English gold. Such a parcel of rogues in a nation ... ”

— Robert Burns

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