Gillian Tett quotes
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“[The Utopia of Rules] should offer a challenge to us all. Should we just accept this bureaucracy as inevitable? Or is there a way to get rid of all those hours spent listening to bad call-centre music? Do policemen, academics, teachers and doctors really need to spend half their time filling in forms? Or can we imagine another world?”
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“The great rebalancing -- what does recovery mean today?”
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“I think socialism is really about recognizing that there are limits to what the market can do. The market is very useful; at times it works very well, but it doesn't always work.”
-- Gillian Tett
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Source : "Alastair Campbell" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2003.
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“The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.”
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“Can our Society meet the Challenge of a Technological Future?”
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