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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 You Write It Down, And When You Reread It And Realise You Were Wrong. Making Mistakes Is Part Of Life. The Only Things I Would Feel Ashamed Of Would Be If I Had Said Things I Hadn't Believed In Order To Get On. Some Politicians Do Do That.

I Met Somebody Once Who Said, "i'm A Lapsed-atheist" By What He Meant Was, "i Don't Believe In God But The Older I Get The More I Realise There Is A Spirituality In Everybody That Has To Be Cherished And Nourished." That Made A Lot Of Sense To Me.

There Is No Final Victory, As There Is No Final Defeat. There Is Just The Same Battle. To Be Fought, Over And Over Again. So Toughen Up, Bloody Toughen Up.

If One Meets A Powerful Person--adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin Or Bill Gates--ask Them Five Questions: "what Power Have You Got? Where Did You Get It From? In Whose Interests Do You Exercise It? To Whom Are You Accountable? And How Can We Get Rid Of You?

Through Talk, We Tamed Kings, Restrained Tyrants, Averted Revolution