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"Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats."
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"Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference."
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"I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that."
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"I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy."
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"I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad."
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"I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street."
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"They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press."
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"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."
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"I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press."
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"Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats."
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"The press has met their Waterloo, and it's Obama."
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"Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies."
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"The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption."
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"The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army."
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"Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived."
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"In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers."
Society


"At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well."
Politics


"The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example."
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"Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats."
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"A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology."
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"From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty."
Nature
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