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That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.
Neil Kinnock
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Neil Kinnock
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 28
Former Leader Of The Labour Party
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Neil Gordon Kinnock
Baron Kinnock
Neil G. Kinnock
Neil Gordon Kinnock
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Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.
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