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Margaret Thatcher had more impact on the world than any woman ruler since Catherine the Great of Russia. Not only did she turn around - decisively - the British economy in the 1980s, she also saw her methods copied in more than 50 countries. Paul Johnson
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I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which I don't think it is. That glamorising of war, and white-limbed, flowing-haired Greek heroes - it's become a cliched, British empire part of our culture. Alice Oswald
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We have had more sales for this year's grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the fact that Jenson had 10 podiums last season and looks like a winner. It is good for British motor racing if he is there and doing well. Jackie Stewart
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We have always been strongly opposed to anything that would threaten the separate identities of the British football associations and that has not and will not change. The present set-up has been around, in our case, since 1873 and we have separate privileges within FIFA and UEFA. From a football perspective, that is more important than participation in an Olympic Games. David Taylor
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We have already had a sequence of downgrades from British Airways, Lufthansa has reduced its guidance once, and KLM has massively reduced its guidance, Chris Avery
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We have two British Airways jets parked on our runway.
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We can survive this, British Airways is a strong company, and will come through this in good shape, but we have to take the necessary tough measures.
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In the British embassy in Afghanistan in 2008, an embassy of 350 people, there were only three people who could speak Dari, the main language of Afghanistan, at a decent level. And there was not a single Pashto speaker. Rory Stewart
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If you look back at history, the various Maharajas of the Indian empire actually helped support a whole British industry. The royalty in those days ordered exotic cars in huge numbers.
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The first 90 minutes of the match are the most important. Bobby Robson
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My idea of a perfect holiday is spending time with the family, waking up on Christmas morning or Thanksgiving morning, watching football all day, having the family come over, people you haven't seen. Morris Chestnut
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We had a lot of football players on the team then. Once we got out of football mode we started making strides. Michael Beasley
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Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football. Zinedine Zidane
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I knew I wasn't going to be able to throw a football.
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That, for us, was as good as signing on the dotted line. There was a taxation issue, not a football issue, that needed sorting out. Steve McClaren
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Brazil is crazy about football. People, they wait for this moment, but this doesn't mean we are going to win the championship. That is the problem. Pele
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Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. 'Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese.
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Football's always easier when you've got the ball. Kevin Keegan