Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.
HAROLD WILSONHe who rejects change is the architect of decay.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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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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Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
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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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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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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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The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will not affect our ability to govern. Having been charged with the duties of Government we intend to carry out those duties.
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Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel between he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.
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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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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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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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