Top London Quotes
Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews (or a Jewish state; not quite the same thing, as I failed at first to see) had been...
Christopher Hitchens
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ancestry, antisemitism, arabs, armageddon, arthur balfour, bedouin, bolshevism, britain, christianity, colonialism
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But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions of the past 30 years. It needs a return to the conviction that economic growth and the affluence it...
Eric Hobsbawm
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britain, capitalism, economics, education, london, morality, nobel prize, politics, progressivism, universities
A une époque de sa vie, il y avait de cela de nombreuses années, elle avait perdu sa foi en Dieu. Elle l'avait maudit, haï, accusé d'être responsable de tous les maux de la terre. Mais le mal n'était...
Barbara Taylor Bradford
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grandmother, istanbul, london, love, past, secret, secret affair, suspense, turkey, united kingdom
I was taken to a villa to meet Sabri al-Banna, known as 'Abu Nidal' ('father of struggle'), who was at the time emerging as one of Yasser Arafat's main enemies. The meeting began inauspiciously when A...
Christopher Hitchens
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arafat, china, interviews, iraq, israel, london, middle east, military training, palestine, plo
There were some places, and streets, where he did not venture since he had learnt that others had claims there greater than his own - not the gangs of meths drinkers who lived in no place and no time,...
Peter Ackroyd
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greenwich, homeless, homeless people, homelessness, limehouse, london, spitalfields, vagrant, wapping, whitechapel