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The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.

The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.

Camille Paglia
Pigs, Healthcare, Guinea

Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.

Edgar Allan Poe
Guinea, Notes, Should
Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.312, Wordsworth Editions

The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.

Robert Burns
Men, Guinea, Stamps
'For a' that and a' that' (1790)

To make three guineas do the work of five.

Robert Burns
Three, Economy, Guinea
Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham (1834). “The Works of Robert Burns: With His Life”, p.174

An ounce of gold is an ounce of gold, whether it consists of guineas, sovereigns or eagles.

Hans F. Sennholz
Eagles, Gold, Guinea

The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of "Spiritualism" is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a séance.

Thomas Huxley
Suicide, Argument, Guinea
Review in the Daily News on October 17, 1871. "Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley". Book edited by Leonard Huxley, Volume 1, p. 452, 1900.

All we want is to be treated like human beings, and not to be patronized, or experimented on like guinea pigs.

Winona Ryder
Pigs, Want, Guinea
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance.

Thomas Huxley
Atheism, Guinea, Made
Thomas Henry Huxley (1903). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

I should wish [Alain Robbe-Grillet] to realize that Guinea exists.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Wish, Realizing, Guinea

In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Guinea, Discomfort, My Own

In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed to escape unscathed though, I'm pretty good at that.

David Bailey
Guinea, Feels, Cannibal

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