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My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

Boris Johnson

He is the resounding human rebuttal to all Marxist historians who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces. The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.
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Difference History Human Man Oneself Thinking Vast
I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.
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Enemy Myself Rival
We split the atom, and now we have to get French or Korean scientists to help us build nuclear power stations. We perfected the finest cars on earth-and now Rolls-Royce is in the hands of the Germans.
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Country Nuclear Power Rolls Royale Scientist Stations
The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.
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Cities Earth Volunteer
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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Believe Economy Equality Essential Myself Possible Value
David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler was a ‘born leader’, declared the befuddled former British Prime Minister.
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Country Hero War
I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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Becoming Chance Redneck
But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.
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Hands People Swim
I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad … he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help.
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Mad Needs Reality
I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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Healthy School Sweet
I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.
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Believe Female Males
Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.
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Finding Help People Volunteer Work
I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.
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Minimize People Risk See Terrorism Thinking
Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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Conscious Myself Project Stay Try
When Cameron’s Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.
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Cycling Law Ubiquity
This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt. But it is a moment for hope…
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Doubt Moments Self

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

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