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In the case of nutrition and health, just as in the case of education, the gentleman in Whitehall really does know better what is good for people than the people know themselves.
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
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Douglas Jay
Born:
March 23, 1907
Died:
March 6, 1996
(aged 88)
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Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, Baron Jay was a British Labour Party politician.
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