The purpose of satire has b... by Michael Flanders, a British Actor

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“The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!”

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Michael Flanders

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Name: Michael Flanders

Nationality: British

Date of Birth: Mar 1, 1922

Date of Death: Apr 14, 1975

Profession: Actor

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If God had intended us to fly he would have given us railways.

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The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

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One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.

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Eating people is wrong.

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