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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

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
Disagreeable
Consequently
Duty
Reading
Business
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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
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The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.
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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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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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Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
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