Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
ALAN BENNETT[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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