He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
HAROLD WILSONFrom now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn’t mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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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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[Criticizing as “appalingly complacent” a Conservative Government report that by the ’60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall.
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Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.
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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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