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Clare Short

"I have set out to change the language of the international system."

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Donna Grant

"You can change a life by touching someone with simple, beautiful, kind, words and a loving smile."

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Donna Grant

"We have to change our thoughts before things can change."

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Donna Grant

"Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of them razorblade saddles and purple paint and everything, and they gave me this light blue one. With a basket. A girl's bike.''Well. You're a girl,' said one of the others.'That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl."

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Donna Grant

"You may turn every house in your neighborhood into a charity center, you may fill the land with soup-kitchens, but the misery of humans will still continue to exist until the character of humanity changes."

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Donna Grant

"When you meet someone, and you find that they are prejudiced against your kind, it might be your chance, not to confirm, but to be the one to finally change their mind."

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Donna Grant

"Every living object has to change every moment just to live."

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Donna Grant

"Change is the rule. Permanence is an illusion."

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Donna Grant

"Losing your job gives you the opportunity to make your life count."

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Donna Grant

"If you don't like the solution, change the problem."

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Donna Grant

"Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly explode they'd seen the need for gods as the sort of supernatural equivalent of a hard hat. Besides, when you hit your thumb with an eight-pound hammer it's nice to be able to blaspheme. It takes a very special and strong-minded kind of atheist to jump up and down with their hand clasped under their other armpit and shout, "Oh, random-fluctuations-in-the-space-time-continuum!" or "Aaargh, primitive-and-outmoded-concept on a crutch!"

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Clare Short
"I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq."

Politics

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Clare Short
"People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning."

People

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Clare Short
"I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it."

Time

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Clare Short
"The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now."

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Clare Short
"I have set out to change the language of the international system."

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Clare Short
"That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson."

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Clare Short
"I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal."

Intelligence

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Clare Short
"And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they'd veto any second resolution - which wasn't true, we now know."

Now

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Clare Short
"The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?"

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Clare Short
"Of course we need action, but it should be Just action."

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