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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away. - Aneu

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away. – Aneurin Bevan

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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle… with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination. – Aneurin Bevan

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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. – Aneurin Bevan

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