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“It was just screaming to have a song written about it.”

Musician Randy Mitchell, who wrote Ode to Billy Goats, praising the goats in Tennessee that are keeping kudzu vines from throttling the American South (The New York Times, 5 June)

“It would be painful for me but I would have to refuse them.”

Assisted-suicide pioneer Jack Kevorkian, aka “Doctor Death”, on what he would say to someone seeking his help to end their life. Kevorkian was released from prison on 1 June on the condition that he would not help anyone else commit suicide (The Detroit News, 2 June)…

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