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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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I don't how to explain how I feel right now, I am pretty excited. The kids worked their butts off all week. They played four straight days and every day they have been at practice at 11:30 every day and worked for an hour and half. I am so proud of them. I think they wanted it more.
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I just hope we make their weeks or their days or their months.
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His days of dictatorship are over. Justice will now prevail.
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I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life - other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. I worked at home, all by myself. Kate Christensen
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I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in goal is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long. Oscar Wilde
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I know it is hard to do, but they need to be thinking about contingencies 30, 60 or 90 days down the road." ()
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I hope I can play, but I don't know. The two days off will help. Devin Harris
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I have to pay attention. Every three days I have to put gas in it.
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I have to say I was really surprised to learn from the newspaper that we're paying you. I thought this was a volunteer office. If you want to resign, we could fill your seat within 30 days with people happy to take the $9,000. Phil Davis
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But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish ever more exotic surfaces, hyperboloidial and even stranger, eventually including what we must term ‘imaginary’ shapes (which some preferred to term invisible). Thomas Pynchon
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Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.
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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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In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.
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This is huge in my country. Just huge. Octavio Dotel