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1 " How will we ever tell you apart?" Collins asked, unable to resist the question." It's really quite simple, sir, once you know us," the spokesman assured him. " If he's talking, it's probably George, because Geoff is a quiet lad; if he's dancing a hornpipe, it's Geoff, because hornpipes make me dizzy." " You're George, then?" " Yes, sir - the eldest." " By five minutes and fifty-five seconds," added Geoffrey, frowning." Five minutes and fifty-nine seconds," George corrected him calmly. "
2 " - " Surely you have considered terrorist activity?" There was another pause. Then the spokesman said, in the quiet tones of someone who has had enough and who is going to quit after this and raise chickens somewhere, " Yes, I suppose we must. All we need to do is find some terrorists who are capable of taking an entire nuclear reactor out of its can while it's running and without anyone noticing. It weighs about a thousand tons and is forty feet high. So they'll be quite strong terrorists. Perhaps you'd like to ring them up, sir, and ask them questions in that supercilious, accusatory way of yours." -- The BBC interviews a nuclear spokesperson (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens) "
3 " All the wild beasts have been extinct for years, but it's perfectly possible to synthesize them autobiogenically. On the other hand, why be bound to what was once produced by natural evolution? The spokesman for surrealist zoology was most eloquent - we should populate our preserves with bold, original conceptions, not slavish imitations, we should forge the New, not plagiarize the Old. "
― Stanisław Lem , The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
4 " Judas became the spokesman of all those who through the centuries would protest the ornamentation of the Christian cult and would feel that, when the best of gold and jewels were given to the God Who made them, there was some slight made to the poor - not because they were interested in the poor, but because they were envious of that wealth. "
― Fulton J. Sheen , Life of Christ
5 " The philosopher is not the spokesman of his age, but an angel imprisoned in time. "
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila , Escolios a un texto implicito: Seleccion
6 " The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.' "
