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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Aneurin Bevan

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Aneurin Bevan
Age: 62 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 15
Died: 1960
Died: July 6
Politician
Secretary Of State For Health
Trade Unionist
Nye Bevan
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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.
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You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
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I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
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The Tories always hold the view that the state is an apparatus for the protection of the swag of the property owners ... Christ drove the money changers out of the temple, but you inscribe their title deed on the altar cloth.
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Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.
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The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.
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It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
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I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
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Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
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Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
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The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates like a war and the war like a debate.
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This is my truth, tell me yours.
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No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.
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Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.
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How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.
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