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"Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there."

"If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it."

"The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well."

"Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right."

"When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice."

"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."

"He must not laugh at his own wheeze: a snuff box has no right to sneeze."
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"Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system."

"You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College."

"The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more."

"We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens."

"Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation."

"Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism."
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