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Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

Harold Wilson

I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.
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Ability Asset Believe Good Night Greatest Jhead Sleep State
If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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Choice Smoke Vinegar
The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
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Country Forhfet Heat Industry Method Outdate Place Practice Restrictive Revolution Side
On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.
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Reject Restrain September Wage
The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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Crusade Labour More Nothing Party
I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase ‘freedom of the press’ used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.
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Freedom Freely Hear Little Nauseated Perhaps Phrase Press Use
The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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Belief Bound Limit Only Power
Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you’re out on your own.
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Christian Designing Early Man Message Punish Rest Ruthlessness Society System Uncaring
The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
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Athlete Christian Constitution Early Endurance Mother Office President Require
Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
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Against Debate Dog Fun Insult Like Look No Something Whip
Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.
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All Allow Bite Different Dog Every Fail Licence Oen Return Taken Time View
If you rattle along at great speed everybody inside is too exhilarated or too seasick to cause any trouble. But if you stop everybody gets out and argues about where to go next.
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Along Argue Everybody Exhilarate Great Inside Next Rattle Seasick Speed Trouble
It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.
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Clear Country Person Quote Three Time Year
The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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Coach Labour Party Stage
There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.
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Five Nauseat Pay Prime Minister Society Something System Times Twenty Utterly
If we don’t give science its proper place in our national life. We shall no doubt be training all the bullfighters we need, because we don’t use many.
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Bullfighter Life Many National Proper Science Training Use

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

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