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If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him.
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