I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
BORIS JOHNSONHumanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.
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I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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Bring Harry home to Britain-and if you want a site with less rainfall than Rome, with excellent public transport, and strong connections to Harry Potter, I have just the place.
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My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
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Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.
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It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.
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In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can’t turn the clock back to 1904, what’s the point of being a Conservative?
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London is a fantastic creator of jobs – but many of these jobs are going to people who don’t originate in this country.
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Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.
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Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under.
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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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The difference between Hitler’s speeches and Churchill’s speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything.
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It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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