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When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.

~George Mikes

Topics: Britain British England Great Great Britain Kingdom Mean Never People People Say Say Sometimes United United Kingdom

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The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm.

~George Osborne

Topics: British Continuing Creating Economy Grow Haven Instability International Jobs News Positive Real Safe Safe Haven Storm Time Too

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I think you can look at the British economy with confidence.

~George Osborne

Topics: British Confidence Economy Look Think You I Think

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I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.

~George Osborne

Topics: British British People Fair People Sense Strong Strong Sense Think I Think

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The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.

~George Osborne

Topics: British British People Care Disabled Get Offer People Should Someone Support Then Think

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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

Topics: Attached British British People Country Doctor Employed Every Free Health Idea No Reason Nurse People Point Reason Service State Teacher Think Use Very Why I Think

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Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.

~George Osborne

Topics: Been British British People Funds Infrastructure Investing Pension People Savings Well

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Britain helped create the Internet - Tim Berners Lee created the World Wide Web, one of a long line of British scientists who have given us an outsized role in shaping our own digital future.

~George Osborne

Topics: Britain British Create Created Digital Future Given Helped Internet Lee Line Long Long Line Our Own Role Scientists Shaping Tim Us Web Who Wide World World Wide Web

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To all companies large and small, I would say this: the British economy is fundamentally strong; we are highly competitive, and we are open for business.

~George Osborne

Topics: British Business Companies Competitive Economy Fundamentally Highly Large Open Say Small Strong Would

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I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir 'Goodbye to All That,' and a civilian memoir, 'Testament of Youth,' by Vera Brittain.

~George Packer

Topics: British Civilian Even Goodbye Graves Lot Memoir Poetry Read Robert Testament Vera War World World War World War I Writing Youth

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