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• Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Strong, Fate, Past

  Ebenezer Elliott, Mark Storey (2008). “Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott”, p.61, Associated University Presse

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• If the basis of trust between the Prime Minister and her Defence Secretary no longer exists, there is no place for me with honour in such a Cabinet.

  Michael Heseltine

  Trust, Cabinets, Ministers

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• As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.

  Boris Johnson

  People, England, Ministers

  "Johnson makes gaffes on all fronts" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2006.

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• Barriers are continually being made out of... new values which have overturned the barriers of the past. Thus one sees that it is not basically the new value that is of prime importance, but rather the spirit that is revealed in this value, as well as the freedom necessary for this revelation.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Past, Spirit, Revelations

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• Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction

  Bertie Ahern

  Office, Politician, Ministers

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• We want a comprehensive package that covers export subsidies, tariffs and overall levels of support. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making central to his summit speech that he wants to abolish all export subsidies. It is up to him to push the European Union in that direction, and the U.S. needs to reciprocate.

  Kevin Watkins

  Support, Needs, Levels

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• Prime Minister Golda Meir said that the Middle East will see peace when Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel. On behalf of many Arab mothers, this is one mother who not only loves her children, but also loves Israel's children.

  Nonie Darwish

  Mother, Children, Hate

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• Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit.

  Geoffrey B. Wilson

  Prayer, Hate, Hypocrisy

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• Now the summer's in prime Wi' the flowers richly blooming, And the wild mountain thyme A' the moorlands perfuming. To own dear native scenes Let us journey together, Where glad innocence reigns 'Mang the braes o' Balquhither.

  Robert Tannahill

  Summer, Flower, Journey

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• In the last few decades entire new categories of waste have come to plague and menace the American scene. Pollution is growing at a rapid rate. Pollution destroys beauty and menaces health. It cuts down on efficiency, reduces property values and raises taxes. Almost all these wastes and pollutions are the result of activities carried on for the benefit of man. A prime national goal must be an environment that is pleasing to the senses and healthy to live in. Our Government is already doing much in this field. We have made significant progress. But more must be done.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Beauty, Cutting, Men

  "The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson". Book by Lyndon B. Johnson, book 1, p. 161-62, 1965.

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• Maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating experience is of prime importance.

  Ann Landers

  Self, Faces, Maintaining

  Ann Landers (1979). “The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”

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• We are coming to a place where the road ends. From here on out, we will be making the road as we walk it, in ways we've never had to do before. We now have the job of forging our own evolutionary destiny, and being prime agents of the process of evolution here on Earth.

  Tom Atlee

  Inspirational, Jobs, Destiny

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• I'm a working man in my prime cleaning windows.

  Van Morrison

  Work, Men, Cleaning

  Song: Cleaning Windows

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• The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in the eighteenth century), is easily turned aside with just one more question: Who or what caused and moved God?

  Michael Shermer

  Thinking, Firsts, Causes

  Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.146, Macmillan

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• What every prime minister struggles with and every leader struggles with is how to balance the two objectives; firstly that of ensuring that all asylum seekers are treated generously and humanely in accordance with the convention and secondly doing everything you can to eliminate or at least discourage people smuggling. And it's a very, very difficult balance.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Struggle, Two, People

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• Prime Minister Jan Dhan Yojana is a reflection of how rich India's poor are at heart. Without any obligation to put any money in the 0 balance accounts, they didn't open an empty account.

  Narendra Modi

  Heart, Reflection, Empowerment

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• I'd tax the Daily Mail [if I were a Prime Minister] so high no one could afford to buy it. I hate that paper, I think it's really vicious. I picked one up the other day and every single page is about hate. It's just so negative.

  Jason Flemyng

  Hate, Thinking, Negative

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasuries Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.

  Thomas Moore

  Spring, Autumn, Rubies

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• I am happy to debate the past with the Prime Minister... I have a big dossier on his past, and I did not even have to sex it up.

  Michael Howard

  Sex, Past, Debate

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• If Justice is pictured blindfold, it is because she judges causes, not men, and not because the prime faculty of an arbitrator is lack of discernment.

  Charles Wagner

  Men, Justice, Judging

  Charles Wagner (1905). “Justice”, W. Briggs

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• Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme, Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay; Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, For oh, it is not always May!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Simple, May, Youth

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.216

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• In his prime, the young comic walked onto a stage with the confidence of a man who owned it, and by the time he walked off, he did.

  Bob Hope

  Men, Comic, Stage

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• Life is better than death. But death comes eventually to everyone. It is something which many in their prime may prefer not to think about. But at 89, I see no point in avoiding the question. What concerns me is: How do I go? Will the end comes swiftly, with a stroke in one of the coronary arteries? Or will it be a stroke in the mind that lays me out in bed for months, semi-comatose? Of the two, I prefer the quick one.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Thinking, Two, Mind

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• On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; Burghers and dames, at summer's prime, Ride out to church from Chamberry, Dight with mantles gay, But else it is a lonely time Round the Church of Brou.

  Matthew Arnold

  Summer, Lonely, Gay

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

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• No British Prime Minister of the last seventy years has been more harshly stereotyped than Stanley Baldwin. No one has been so much ignored, after the initial judgements of contemporaries had been made.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Years, Judgement, Lasts

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