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Our only president who has died as U.S. commander in chief in war is Franklin Delano Roosevelt - who died of a cerebral hemorrhage or massive stroke on April 12, 1945, only three weeks before the unconditional surrender of the German armed forces he had laid down as implacable Allied policy two years before. Nigel Hamilton

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The NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion. Nigel Lawson

Religion Closest Closest Thing English Thing

It would be wholly wrong constitutionally for the unelected House of Lords to do anything, to kill anything of a financial nature that has been through the House of Commons not once but twice. Nigel Lawson

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A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused. Nigel Short

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We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education. Nigel Short

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty. Norman Douglas

First Duty Civic Distrust Be The First Authority Should

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. Norman Douglas

Education Echoes

There are those airports which make you feel better, and there are those airports that, when you go there, your heart sinks: you can't wait to get out of there. They both function as airports, but it's the things that you can't measure that make them different. Norman Foster

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Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves. Norman Tebbit

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He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work. Norman Tebbit

Work Riot He Looked Got His Bike

I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes. Oliver Sacks

Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis. Oswald Mosley

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People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt. Paddy Ashdown

People Politicians Corrupt Know Want

Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA's budget is too small for the job. Paul Davies

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Indeed, the study of universities and the great men and women who have attended them leads me to think that the best of these schools are characterized not so much by what they teach and how they teach it but by the extent they provide opportunities and encouragement for students to teach themselves. Paul Johnson

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The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear. Paul Merton

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I hate ridiculous names; my weird name has haunted me all my life. Peaches Geldof

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Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color. Pete Townshend

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I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.' Pete Townshend

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A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending. Pete Townshend

Me Pretending Pretend Audience Continue Lot Want

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth. Pete Townshend

Mouth Born Spoon Plastic

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion. Pete Townshend

Me Anger Sense Say Proportion Blanket Around

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