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1342 British Quotes

Meet the challenges of the time.

Meet Challenges Time
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People believe in the power of education to change lives

People Believe Power Education
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When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do

People You Criticism Learn
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When things are difficult, you have to be sure of who you are and what you want to achieve.
Difficult You Want Achieve
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You have to live in the future, not the past.

You Live Future Past
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I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower

Courage People Strength Belief
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I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support.

Politics People Public Support
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Stability is necessary for our future economic success.

Stability Future Economic Success
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Our common realm is not and cannot be stripped of values - I absolutely reject the idea that religion should somehow be tolerated but not encouraged in public life.

Values Idea Religion Life
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It is not a mistake to want power.

Mistake Want Power
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The way forward is for governments to consciously pursue monetary and fiscal stability through setting clear objectives, establishing proper rules, and requiring openness and transparency - the new rules of the game.

Government Objectives Rules Game
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I have been fascinated by men and women of courage. People who took brave decisions in the service of great causes especially when more comfortable and far less dangerous alternatives were open to them

Men Women Courage Service
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There are values far beyond those of contracts, markets and exchange

Values Beyond Markets Exchange
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Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world

Technology Power Moral World
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When something really matters, you should never give up or give in.
Something Matters Never Give up
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Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality.

Equality Religion Race Gender
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I find it quite unusual for people to criticise me for doing what I consider to be my duty.

Unusual People Criticise Duty
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If people are persuaded of the need for education and the need to invest in education, they're also persuaded of the need not to waste that investment by having low-quality education but to have high-quality education

People Need Education Invest
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When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society.

Society Time Issue Minorities
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The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction.

Evidence Climate change Attention
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In every era, there are only one or two moments when nations come together and reach agreements that make history, because they change the course of history.

Era Nations History Change
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I believe that our vote is both a public duty and a sacred trust.

Believe Vote Duty Trust
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I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

I Act Impulse Instincts
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I think pressure’s healthy, and very few can handle it.

Think Pressure's Healthy Few
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Stop taking things personally.

Stop Things Personally
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I’ve had a lot of success, I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

Lot Success Failures Learn
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Push your limit to the absolute extreme.

Push Your Limit Existence
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The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

Compromising Ego Game
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Best to start at the bottom & gradually climb up. It’s much more fun, too.

Best Bottom Climb up Fun
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Put the emotion in the food, because it’s so much more rewarding down the line.

Emotion Food Rewarding
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The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.

Secret Business Perfection
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Does anybody else try to suppress a cough when in public? These days I squeeze out a cough the same way I used to stealth fart in pre-Covid times.

To suppress A cough In public Squeeze out
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong

Better Roughly Right Wrong
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People will do the rational thing, but only after exploring all other altertives.

People Rational Exploring Alternatives
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Men will not always die quietly

Men Die Quietly
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Ideas shape the course of history.
Ideas Shape Course History
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

Investment Ignorance Time Future
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone

Capitalism Belief Men God
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out

Harm Wrong Found out
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil

Ideas Interests Dangerous Good
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

Men Love Money Security
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent

Education Inculcation Indifferent Incompetent
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid

Economist Humble Competent Splendid
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

Man Conservative Present Past
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Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

Words Wild Thoughts Unthinking
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One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli

Politicians Masters Fate Job
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.

Political Mankind Economic Liberty
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.

Markets Moved Spirits Reason
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

Problem People Accept New ideas
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Markets Irrational Longer Remain
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