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There are two reasons for making an appointment. Either there was nobody else; or there was somebody else.
Norman Brook, 1st Baron Normanbrook
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Promotion of health generally by improving the standard of living. From the health point of view we are in this connexion first and foremost interested in the three fundamental environmental factors: housing (including family life), nutrition, and working conditions (including human relations as well as material conditions).
Karl Evang
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The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.
Arthur Goldberg
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When I was a child, I spoke like a child. When I was an adult, I no longer spoke like a child. When I became old and wise, I spoke again like a child. I wish I had spoken all my life like a child.
Robert Muller
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Ask a ferryman or a toll-keeper how many visitors come through daily on an average, and with an appearance of great intellectual discomfort he assures you the number varies so much.
Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp
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Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
Leonard Woolf
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The business of the Civil Service is the orderly management of decline.
William Armstrong
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The acid test of any political decision is, 'What is the alternative?'
Burke Trend, Baron Trend
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More weight was placed on the intelligence than it could bear.
Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell
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Conviction politicians, certainly: conviction civil servants, no.
Ian Bancroft, Baron Bancroft
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I don't think you can investigate anything too rigorously, because you're not being fair to people unless you do that.
Elizabeth Filkin
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It is proposed to invite the flower of our youth to the aid of public service.
Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet
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Parties come to power with silly, inconsistent and impossible policies because they have spent their whole period in opposition forgetting about the real world, destroying the lessons they learnt in government and clambering slowly back on to the ideological plain where they feel happiest.
Adam Ridley
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I confidently expect that we [civil servants] shall continue to be grouped with mothers-in-law and Wigan Pier as one of the recognized objects of ridicule.
Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
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The Pentagon, that immense monument to modern man's subservience to the desk.
Oliver Franks
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One feature which will probably most impress the mathematician accustomed to the rapidity and directness secured by the generality of modern methods is the deliberation with which Archimedes approaches the solution of any one of his main problems.
Thomas Little Heath
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No scientific argument — by which I mean an argument drawn from the phenomena of nature — can ever have the slightest tendency either to prove or disprove the existence of God... science is irrelevant to religion.
Walter Terence Stace
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Kailash Satyarthi has dedicated his life to helping the millions of children in India who are forced into slavery and work in torrid conditions. His award is an acknowledgement of the tireless, decades-long campaigning by civil society activists on child trafficking and child labor in India.
Salil Shetty
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My daughter looks at these pictures every day. She happily tells me, 'Mom, you're becoming an anime heroine in Japan,' which of course is very exciting for her. As for myself, though, I'm too busy to really pay much attention to the drawings.
Natalia Poklonskaya
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My old cat is dead,
Who would butt me with his head.
Henry Summers
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The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice.
Richard Mottram
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Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.
Claus Moser, Baron Moser
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I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.
Scott McClellan
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He hes done petuously devour,
The noble Chaucer, of makaris flouir,
The Monk of Bery, and Gower, all three;
Timor mortis conturbat me.
William Dunbar
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I still believe that, in the long run, the aggregate of the decisions of individual businessmen, exercising individual judgment in a free economy, even if often mistaken, is likely to do less harm than the centralized decisions of a Government; and certainly the harm is likely to be counteracted faster. As I said earlier in this debate, our economic medicine may be painful but it is fast and powerful because it can act freely.
John James Cowperthwaite
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