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In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances tha

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. – Lucy Powell

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The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education. – Lucy Powell

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Education
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Lucy Powell
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Its become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And its positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but Im really proud of the NHS. – Lucy Powell

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Government
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Lucy Powell
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We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. Whats more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government. – Lucy Powell

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Government
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Lucy Powell
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Technology
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There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century. – Robert Nelson

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Technology

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. – Alvin Toffler

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Technology

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before. – John Perry Barlow

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Technology

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology. – Francesca Annis

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Technology

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All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward. – Johann Georg Hamann

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Wisdom

Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated. – Niklaus Wirth

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design

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when theres more reason to fear than to hope. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Fear

Chief Seattle, of the Indians that inhabited the Seattle area, wrote a wonderful paper that has to do with putting oneself in tune with the universe. He said, – Joseph Campbell

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Universe, The