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Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.
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Julian Baggini
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 9
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The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.
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