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In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-

In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised. – David Miliband

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The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans – five times the population of Britain – are in the middle class. – David Miliband

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alone
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David Miliband
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Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions. – David Miliband

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Politics
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My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics. – David Miliband

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The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education. – James S. Coleman

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Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people cant let that happen. – Kerry Washington

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My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic. – Baz Luhrmann

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Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life. – Havelock Ellis

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All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future. – Gerald R. Ford

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Nobody makes bouillabaisse from scratch. Its all a bunch of malarkey. Even the restaurants buy a commercial-grade product. I had a very famous chef tell me that. – Sandra Lee

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I think Im a music fan before anything else. – Nuno Bettencourt

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With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When youre in the public eye, its just amplified, thats all. – Margot Kidder

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