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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.

Harold Wilson

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
May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what’s going on.
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Benefit Carried Day Going Gossip May Sir
Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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Chance Equal Everybody Fly Start
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
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 cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.
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Bring Cumulative Effect Economic End Finance Matter might Month Rebellion Sanction Week
Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.
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All Allow Bite Different Dog Every Fail Licence Oen Return Taken Time View
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
I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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Going Government Labour
It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.
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Clear Country Person Quote Three Time Year
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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Architect Change Decay Reject
This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don’t have a lot of difficulty.
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Along Apart Bit Difficulty Drive Either Everyone Exhilarate Lot Rapid Seasick
The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
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Athlete Christian Constitution Early Endurance Mother Office President Require
We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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Redefine Restart Revolution Scientific Socialism Term
I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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Best Messy Middle Muddle Road
A week is a long time in politics.
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Long Politics Time Weak

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