"It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you."

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Source : 1991 Speech at the Labour Party Conference, Oct.

Tony Benn

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“Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out.”

Source : "Michael Sheen: this much I know" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2012.
“From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.”
“Our economy will not prosper as long as it is monopolised (by the government). The economy must be rid of monopoly and see competition, it must be freed of insider speculation, be transparent, all people must be aware of the statistics. If we can bring transparency to our economy, we can fight corruption.”
“Sometimes there are really happy mistakes.”
“Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.”
“I do stand in opposition to those who want to implement Sharia and essentially attack the Constitution of the United States.”
“To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.”
“And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over”

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