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I couldn't live with myself if I thought that these big strategic choices for my generation were there, and I wasn't even making them - or I was making them according to what was expedient rather than what I actually thought was right.

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Tony Blair
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 6
Autobiographer
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Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
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Rt. Hon. Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
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