Tony Blair Quotes
The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.
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Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.
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I cannot either change or do anything bad or good to the Syrian people and Syrian citizens.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
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There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
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An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
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Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.
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'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
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Once you've dissected a joke, you're about where you are when you've dissected a frog. It's dead.
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I have pondered long, and I know now that only the pure of heart forgive the thirst that leads to dead waters. And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.
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Magic is something that happens that appears to be impossible. What I call 'illusion magic' uses laws of science and nature that are already known. Real magic uses laws that haven't yet been discovered.
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It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.
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I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I'm in.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.
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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
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Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.
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We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad.
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The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.
