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I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.
Harold Wilson
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Harold Wilson
Age: 79 †
Born: 1916
Born: March 11
Died: 1995
Died: May 24
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Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
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James Harold Wilson
Lord Wilson
James Harold Wilson
Baron Wilson of Rievaulx
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel between he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.
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