Betty Boothroyd famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view.
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My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.
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Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.
-- Betty Boothroyd
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I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
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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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To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
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No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
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If we lose our wilderness , we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely industrialized United States is of no consequence to me.
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I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.
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Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.
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