Quote by George Osborne
Its normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star,

Its normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch. – George Osborne

Other quotes by George Osborne

I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state. – George Osborne

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Health
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A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives. – George Osborne

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Society
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I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the Today programme and item four on the news was: The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership. I lay there thinking thats interesting, then I realised it was me. – George Osborne

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Experience
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men. – Plato

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Death

I dont believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didnt, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode. – Hedy Lamarr

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Death

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. – George Bernard Shaw

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Death

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible? – Barry Goldwater

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Death

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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. – Gaston Bachelard

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Poetry

“Hear! hear!” screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, “winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it.” – Henry David Thoreau, 28 November 1858 journal entry

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Birds

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we cant do in prose. – Peter Davison

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Poetry

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh. – Herodotus

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Knowledge