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You cannot just dismiss a 1,400-year-old culture and civilisation and stigmatise it as merely a hatchery for terrorism

You cannot just dismiss a 1,400-year-old culture and civilisation and stigmatise it as merely a hatchery for terrorism.Prince Saud Al-Faisal, Saudi foreign minister, on the negative stereotyping of Islam in the West.

I started selling rat meat more than two weeks ago.

Chhun Sarom, a Cambodian soup vendor, who has taken chicken off the menu following the outbreak of Avian bird flu.

The lies and falsifications concocted by the two main aggressors and cravenly echoed by the appallingly docile American and British media will reverberate to our disgrace for generations to come.

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Writer John Le Carré on the Iraq war.

Even before now we had no food, no money. If Aristide stays or goes, we still will not eat.

Dieuline Menard, a student in Haiti, says a revolution will not help the population.

I've never seen an Administration spend money like this . . . The money is flying out the door . . . They give away money on phone calls. No documents, no budget.

A senior US Federal official on the White House's spendthrift habits.

I still miss international football.

Roy Keane, former Ireland captain.

To receive a cabbage or turnip in one's Christmas stocking is depicted as punishment rather than reward.

Fine Gael TD Billy Timmins warns of an upsurge in childhood obesity.

We have led this party back to considering what its heart and soul is.

Howard Dean, who dropped out of the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination this week.

Objects in your mirror may be closer than they appear.

John Edwards, the only remaining serious challenger to frontrunner John Kerry, enjoys a late surge in support.

I think the Irish Government should change its mind. Voting without any kind of verification or paper trail is not going to be satisfactory.

Dr David Dill, a professor at Stanford University, California, cautions against electronic voting.

I was humiliated for nothing and I was in the courts for four years. I lost the desire to be like other athletes.

A note written by former champion cyclist Marco Pantani, read at his funeral in Italy this week. The cause of death was given as accumulated fluid in the brain and lungs, but traces of anti-depressants and cocaine were found in the room.

This religious monarchy, in its backwardness, is worse than the secular one of the Shah, which at least was modern.

An Iranian reformist, ahead of parliamentary elections in which moderate candidates have been prohibited from standing.