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Thatcherite economic policy was most acutely felt in the coal industry, where tens of thousands of jobs were lost as pits were shut down.


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JOHN LENNON I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...
JOHN LENNON I believe time wounds all heels.
JOHN LENNON The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I...
JOHN LENNON When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have...
JOHN LENNON If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always...
JOHN LENNON You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
JOHN LENNON Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
JOHN LENNON All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptat...
JOHN LOCKE In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community...
JOHN THORN I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ...
JOHN BARROWMAN You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.
JOHN MCENROE Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress...
JOHN MELLENCAMP A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
JOHN LUBBOCK So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying ...
JOHN WILLIAMS Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
JOHN LYDON There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock...
JOHN VARVATOS