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Harold Wilson

From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn’t mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.
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Abroadm Worth Currency Fourteen From Less Now Other Percent Pound So Term
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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Along Argue Everybody Exhilarate Great Inside Next Rattle Seasick Speed Trouble
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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Architect Change Decay Human Only
Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
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Common Crawling Fair Give Head Held High Market Negotiate Negotiation Wind
At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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Abroad Ask Essential Home Main Prime Minister Repeatably Successful
In politics a week is a very long time.
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Long Politics Time Very Week
Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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Chance Equal Everybody Fly Start
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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Five Nauseat Pay Prime Minister Society Something System Times Twenty Utterly
The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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Belief Bound Limit Only Power
I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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Going Government Labour
I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.
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Ability Asset Believe Good Night Greatest Jhead Sleep State
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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Bullfighter Life Many National Proper Science Training Use
On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.
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Reject Restrain September Wage
The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
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Country Forhfet Heat Industry Method Outdate Place Practice Restrictive Revolution Side
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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Ambition Average Country Every Government Income Labour Present Worker
I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase ‘freedom of the press’ used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.
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Freedom Freely Hear Little Nauseated Perhaps Phrase Press Use

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