"People apply for a job, are asked to work for three or four weeks on probation and are then told to go and are replaced by colleagues. There are shops even in the West End [of London] using large numbers of totally unpaid staff on a permanent basis."

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Source : "Column 856". Daily Hansard - Debate, publications.parliament.uk. March 19, 2013.

Jeremy Corbyn

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“Don't keep saying, "I don't know where the time goes." It goes the same place it's always gone and no one has ever known where that is.”
“I mean, the piano, of course, but I think the piano should be taught in school just like mathematics, just like reading, writing and arithmetic. I'd say reading, writing, arithmetic and rhythm. But that should be a prerequisite, because then the quality of music in the world at least in the United States, would be much better, if everyone knew something about the piano and about music, they would know this is not good. Right now, there is so much music out that's not good, but no one knows the public doesn't know.”

Source : Interview with John Rogers, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 15, 2005.
“Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.”
“If you have no doubt in what you are about to do, you are not pushing yourself hard enough.”
“I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with.”
“We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks the truth." The point is clear: If the people speak and the king doesn't listen, there is something wrong with the king. If the king acts precipitously and the people say nothing, something is wrong with the people.”
“When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak.”
“[A] good Christian does not care for miracles very much, because a miracle is God looking after His own affairs, and we prefer looking after them for Him.”

Source : "Joy". Book by Georges Bernanos, 1929.

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