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My filing system is messy but orderly.
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My filing system is messy but orderly.
A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
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A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
The flag of radicalism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.
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The flag of radicalism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.
I am a public library.
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I am a public library.
In developing our industrial strategy for the period ahead, we have the benefit of much experience. Almost everything has been tried at least once.
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In developing our industrial strategy for the period ahead, we have the benefit of much experience. Almost everything has been tried at least once.
If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if she rejected the advice of the Prime Minister on a major matter? If the Crown personally can reject advice, then, of course, the whole democratic facade turns out to be false.
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If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if she rejected the advice of the Prime Minister on a major matter? If the Crown personally can reject advice, then, of course, the whole democratic facade turns out to be false.
She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea.
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She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea.
I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris.
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I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris.
The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it.
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The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it.
It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen’s head off the stamps.
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It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen’s head off the stamps.
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