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I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

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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Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.
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He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
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Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
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I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth
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Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.
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Virtue is its own punishment.
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He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
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He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.
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The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.
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