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I don’t believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.

Boris Johnson

It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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Easy Hard Work Promise
I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
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Blameless Domesticity Done
My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.
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Criticism Low Moments Skills Style Talk
Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.
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Deal Friendship Queue Trade
It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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Done Happens Writing
I think it is going to be wonderful. I went to the Paralympics in Beijing and have seen how brilliant the sport is at first hand. People are going to love it. It is going to change people’s attitudes to Paralympians and it is going to be a great show.
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Attitude Sports Thinking
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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Place Public Strong Transport
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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Capital Home Myself Sports World
The mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities across London that are facing hardship and deprivation and are the victims of crime.
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Community Creating Hardship
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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Differences Speech Thinking
The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.
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Cities Earth Volunteer
He wished that Britain had ‘a man of his supreme quality at the head of affairs in our country today’. This from the hero of the First World War! The man who had led Britain to victory over the Kaiser!
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Country Raised Today Victory
The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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Conservatism Meat
My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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Birthday Cake Dessert
Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.
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Art Evil Help Himself Humanity Save
I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn’t go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.
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Betrayal Drugs Myself Sugar Thinking

I don’t believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.

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