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Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.

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I learned that economics was not an exact science and that the most erudite men would analyze the economic ills of the world and derive a totally different conclusion.

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Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity rates and to increase the population... in the matter of abortion the human rights of the mother with her family must take precedence over the survival of a few weeks' old foetus without sense or sensibility.

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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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Edith Summerskill

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Born: April 19, 1901
Died: February 4, 1980 (aged 78)
Bio: Edith Clara Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill was a British physician, feminist, Labour politician and writer. She was appointed to the Privy Council in 1949.

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