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You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

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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
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Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
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Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.
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We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.
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Virtue is its own punishment.
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He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
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The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half years.
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What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.
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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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The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.
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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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A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.
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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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Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
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This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
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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 purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
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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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Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.
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