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Historically philosophers and scientists, for example Leucippus, Hobbes, La Mettrie, and d'Holbach, as well as Karl Vogt who, following Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis, made the preposterous remark (perhaps not meant to be taken too seriously) that the brain secretes thought as the liver secretes bile, have embraced materialism.
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The Tory former deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine accused Johnson of behaving "irresponsibly [and] recklessly" and making "preposterous, obscene political remarks".
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