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We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

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I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

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It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.

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The true guide of life is to do what is right.

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It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

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Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.

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Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason.

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I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.

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There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I would not recommend too strict an adherence to this saying.

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I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message.

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I am too busy. I have not time for worry.

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Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.

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Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

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In war, truth is often the first casualty.

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A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.

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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

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The arts are essential to any complete national life. The State owes it to itself to sustain and encourage them. [...] Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the reverence and delight which are their due.

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Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.

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I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le.

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It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed...I feel the need for more precise concentration upon military objectives, such as oil and communications behind the immediate battle-zone, rather than on mere acts of terror and wanton destruction, however impressive.

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