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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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Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. Aldous Huxley
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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us. Michel de Montaigne
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You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program. Michael Beasley
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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. Voltaire
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I love history. I'd like to find more about the history where I live at.
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As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books. Nathaniel Philbrick
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. Plato
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It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand. Sonia Sotomayor
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We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.
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The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life. Charles Fillmore
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Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art. Charles Bukowski
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Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
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Life's as kind as you let it be.
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.