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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
Nye Bevan
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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
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Politics is a blood sport.
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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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He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
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The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.
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Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.
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You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it
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Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
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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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[Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence.
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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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Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.
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In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.
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We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.
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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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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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