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“A faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for; there is all the difference in the world” quote by Tony Benn — Download Open image

“A faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for; there is all the difference in the world”

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Experience is the only real teacher and if you keep a diary you get three bites at educating yourself - when it happens, when…

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Someone comes every morning at nine o'clock to see if I am still alive. I do get lonely, yes, but I have the children…

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Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.

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Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part…

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People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and…

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Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

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You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never just a…

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Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife said 'why don't you…

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Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

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I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.

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People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don’t vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the…

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Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this…

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Martin Luther King, Jr

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Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.

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Tell me your doctrine of the Fall and I will tell you the state of your theology.

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With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept…

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy…

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We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind…

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Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.

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To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of…

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The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to…

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When members unite with the church, they should not only make a profession of faith in Christ (that is essential), but in light of…

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