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“I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.”
Source : In Michael Foot 'Aneurin Bevan' (1973) vol. 2, ch. 11
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“I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.”
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“The answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you - feel the right thing to do. Charlie, you've got to learn to trust yourself”
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“Pain is no longer pain when it is past.”
Source : Margaret Junkin Preston (1870). “Old Song and New”, p.260
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“Last Vegas is a counterfeit version of the New Jerusalem. And it shares something of the glorious reality that it mocks.”
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“In 2006 I was asked to sing at the World Cup in Germany, and in 2010 I was fortunate enough to be asked again.”
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“If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.”
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“Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.”
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“Show me your sun. The rhythm of your eyes. Love is not as certain as this hypnotic time.”
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“You win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone whos just going to be a little different than the person in there. If youre going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk with what may be the Etch A Sketch candidate of the future.”
Source : "GOP candidates focus on Louisiana" by John Helton, www.cnn.com. March 24, 2012.