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He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.

Boris Johnson

If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn’t ever get anywhere.
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Guard Judgment Stupidity
Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
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Darkness Force Intense Power
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
As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.
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Country England People Prime
Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
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Achievement Life Myself Thinking
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
Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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Growth Looks Trying
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
Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
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Book People Play Watch
You know, sometimes I don’t understand what’s wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we just don’t seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property.
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Country Hands Jet/ Engines
It hasn’t taken them long, they began by telling us they would have a positive and patriotic case and they’re back to project fear within minutes. There they go again they have nothing positive to say.
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Beginning Fear Positive Talk
Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.
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Finding Help People Volunteer Work
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
I’d like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
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Education Goodness Myself
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 Envy Stress
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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Compassion Excitement Sight

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