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Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.
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Gordon Brown
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 20
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James Gordon Brown
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...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.
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America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.
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When the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger
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We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines through British history. Our commitment to fairness, fair play and civic duty.
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Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care
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No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.
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I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.
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Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.
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