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^ Small bit of trivia is that Thai passports were printed in Thai and French up to 1977 when they were changed to Thai and English. Now you know. :D Pete :cheers:
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OBE, Other Buggers Efforts, spoken many times by my late Father!
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I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. - Nikola Tesla
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“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship (bondage).” - Sir Alexander Fraser Tytler (1747-1813), a Scottish jurist and historian
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"All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction."
-Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
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Not today, but sometime in the past. A good one that caught my eye. :thumb:

"Buddhists and Muslims taught me how to be a Christian."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Maier

https://inside.isb.ac.th/www-klong-toey/about/

https://mercycentre.org

....if interested, dozens of articles if you search his name and/or the Centre.
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