Tony Blair Quotes
Actually the royal family were very gracious and good to me. But I also found that the British establishment were never quite sure what to make of me. I was a Labour figure, but I'd come from a very middle-class background. In one sense I offended both traditional right and traditional left. But I thought that was no bad thing.
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The atonement is a multifaceted event-Jesus is shown providing surety for our debt to God, mediating the enmity between us and God, and offering Himself as a substitute to suffer God's judgment in our place.
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For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.
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Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just said, 'The hell with that. I'm out there.'
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Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.
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The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.
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When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
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When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.
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Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
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Advertising is the art of persuasion.
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Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
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Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.
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Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.
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I learned pretty early is I never defend my material; it's for other people to if someone is offended. It's so subjective, and if you don't find it funny, it's definitely going to be offensive.
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Actually the royal family were very gracious and good to me. But I also found that the British establishment were never quite sure what to make of me. I was a Labour figure, but I'd come from a very middle-class background. In one sense I offended both traditional right and traditional left. But I thought that was no bad thing.
