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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

John Major

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John Major
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
Autobiographer
Bank Manager
Banker
Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Politician
London
England
Sir John Major
Rt. Hon. Sir John Major
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I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.
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In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.
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If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years.
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I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
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My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
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