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"I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough."
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"Everything started as nothing."
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"You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there."
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"A mansion begins with one brick. A forest begins with one tree. A harvest begins with one seed. An ocean begins with one drop. A friendship begins with one gesture. A fire begins with one spark. A revolution begins with one idea."
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"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."
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"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."
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"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
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"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."
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"The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind."
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"From the beginning, we promised folks that they'll see whatever event we cover in its entirety, from gavel to gavel - whether it's the House of Representatives or the Senate. That's the whole reason for being."
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"Danny and I worked really hard in the beginning of the relationship to find different levels of this couple."
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"I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough."
Beginning
"Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less."
Society
"The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare."
Politics
"The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision."
Mistake
"Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot."
Politics
"Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters."
Thought
"Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors."
Actor
"A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it."
People
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