"After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair."

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Source : "Duncan Smith shakes up benefits in bid to cut costs and increase job incentives" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2010.

Iain Duncan Smith

#Years Quotes #Reform Quotes #Welfare Quotes

“In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.”

Source : "Michael Phelps: 'I consider myself normal'" by Katie McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. August 1, 2012.
“What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not to administer charity; not to make roads and railways; but simply to defend the natural rights of man -- to protect person and property -- to prevent the aggressions of the powerful upon the weak -- in a word, to administer justice. This is the natural, the original, office of a government. It was not intended to do less: it ought not to be allowed to do more.”

Source : Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Man versus the State: Great Essays”, p.125, VM eBooks
“I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.”

Source : "'Diff'rent Strokes' actor Gary Coleman dies at 42" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2010.
“Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.”
“I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect”
“I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.”
“I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.”
“Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.”

Source : Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.174, A&C Black

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