"In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills needed for the new industrialised world."
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"As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.“
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"For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in."
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"Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre."
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"Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times."
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"At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship."
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"What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power."
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-Ray Dalio
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"I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids."
-Chris O'Donnell
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"My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room."
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"To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry."
-Malcolm Turnbull
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"At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour."
-Thom Yorke
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"We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing."
-Melinda Gates
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