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    The Empire Strikes Back.

    —Newsweek cover (19 April 1982) in reference to the British Empire

    The Falklands thing, the Falklands War of 1982, was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

    —Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian writer, in Time, 14 February 1983

    You know... If there's no oil on the Falkland Islands then those people were fighting for sheep.

    —Robin Williams, 1982
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