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"I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room."
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"We used to hold those secret meetings at her house."

"The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism."

"And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that different subjects should be thus brought in turn before the meetings."

"One thing that is almost always said to me is, I grew up with you. They are meeting me and feel that they actually grew up with me. I was with them during their play hours and thinking hours. I was a part of their childhoods. That's one of the most amazing things."

"Then I contacted Ken, then he called me back, then we had a great meeting. Then he called and asked if I would come back to the show. Which was awesome."

"Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered."

"I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna."
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"And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale."

"There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief."

"Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance."

"And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow."

"And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit."

"It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else."

"You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation."

"It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79."

"Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property."
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