Alistair Darling Quotes
Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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Quality attracts quality. People want to be on a good show.
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Apple's iTunes program was once the envy of the world. A combined digital music store and player, it could also sync your iPod. And it worked on both Mac and Windows. It was reasonably fast and very sure-footed.
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Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
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Groupon, as you probably are by now aware, is exactly what it sounds like: a daily-deal site offering group discounts. Maybe you've seen that done before, but certainly not like Groupon, which has executed with an energetic sales force and engaging copywriters, many culled from the Chicago comedy scene.
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If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed a humble belief that art is something which has been invented centuries ago in countries like Greece or Italy and that all we can do about it is study it carefully and apply it.
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Moderation and bipartisan consensus go hand in hand.
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Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?
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We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.
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Without some common baseline of facts, without a willingness to admit new information, and concede that your opponent might be making a fair point, and that science and reason matter - then we're going to keep talking past each other, and we'll make common ground and compromise impossible.
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The First Envoy to a world always comes alone. One alien is a curiosity, two are an invasion.
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Exile desire For what is not. This is the barrenness Of the fertile thing that can attain no more.
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The war is language,language abusedfor Advertisement,language usedlike magic for power on the planet.
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But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six-the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.
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We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.
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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
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There's nothing to be scared of. We're playing basketball. The only thing that could happen is you failing. But as long as you're going hard, there's nothing to be scared of for me. I don't know what there is to be scared of.
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I like to fish when it's not too hot.
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Europe and the United States are better off extending a helping hand to those who know best rather than dictating to them an unfamiliar future.
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We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point of long-term recovery.
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After being raised as an evangelical Christian, I for years assumed that Christianity was the default - there were Christians, and then there were weirdos. I was shocked when, in college, I found that some people get offended when you tell them, for instance, that their recovery from surgery was a 'miracle.'
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The jobless recovery in Maine is much more of a reality than we thought it was.
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Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.
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Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.
