"Nationalisation...does not in itself engender greater equality, more jobs in the regions, higher investment or industrial democracy. The public knows this perfectly well, and so do the workers who have suffered from pit closures, steel redundancies and the run-down of the railways. It is idiotic to try to bamboozle them."

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Source : Speech in Rotherham, June 9, 1973.

Anthony Crosland

#Running Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I was walking down the street. something caught my eye, and dragged it fifteen feet.”
“Do the atheists in Wisconsin realize they're going to Hell? Did you ask them that?”
“The statistics requested respecting the number of crimes that have been solved by tracing the firearm back to the registered owner are not kept at this time and are therefore not available.”

Source : House of Commons Debates, www.ourcommons.ca. May 8, 1996.
“It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.”
“I got into one of the Scottish classical styles called piobaireachd, which is a very old music that started around the 1700s or something. I really got into this music. After that, I started to compose bagpipe music in my notations. Then I started building bagpipes by myself, and then I started to perform with the instrument myself in the 1980s.”
“Love is what's left when you let go of everything you don't need.”
“Evangelicals have to face it (like Roman Catholics of 16th century had to): Increasingly, our version of Good News is neither news nor good.”
“Once in a Moscow chess club I saw how two first-category players knocked pieces off the board as they were exchanged, so that the pieces fell onto the floor. It was as if they were playing skittles and not chess!”

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