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The inviolability of the seal of confession is so fundamental to the very nature of the sacrament that any proposal which undermines that inviolability is…
— Sean Brady
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Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or a rush to the exit from the…
— Philip Hammond
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We have to treat smoking as a major public health issue. We have to reduce the extent to which young people start smoking, and one…
— Andrew Lansley
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In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the NHS: from a…
— Andrew Lansley
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You all know my commitment to the National Health Service. While I am Secretary of State, the NHS will never be fragmented, privatised or undermined.…
— Andrew Lansley
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The basis on which the Good Friday agreement was constructed was in addressing those problems in the history of Northern Ireland, the social and constitutional…
— John Reid
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We live in a very uncertain world, and I think that uncertainty of itself generates an environment which we should not make a decision that…
— Des Browne
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Are we prepared to tolerate a world in which countries which care about morality lay down their nuclear weapons, leaving others to threaten the rest…
— Des Browne
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Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those…
— Jasper Fforde
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When young writers approach me for advice, I remind them, as gently as I can, that they are on their own, with no help available…
— John Banville
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I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see…
— John Boyne
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The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and…
— Julia Quinn
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Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that…
— Kathryn Lasky
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Because I live in the countryside, I want a building which encourages me to have a fully formed relationship with the environment. It gives me…
— Kevin McCloud
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Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.
— Lawrence M. Krauss
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It never ceases to amaze me that every second of every day, more than 6,000 billion neutrinos coming from nuclear reactions inside the sun whiz…
— Lawrence M. Krauss
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I have always felt that, aside from research that violates universal human mores, when it comes to technological applications, that which can be done will…
— Lawrence M. Krauss
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I have a robust sense of humour which helps me deal with problems.
— Peter Mayle
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Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.
— Quentin Blake
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There are, in human affairs, two kinds of problems: those which are amenable to a technical solution and those which are not. Universal health-care coverage…
— Atul Gawande
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