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I've learnt that, sometimes, how others see you is not the same as how you see yourself. I've learnt about how you can be multitasking - and sometimes other people see that you're multitasking. And that's not very nice for them.
David Miliband / British Politician
Multitasking
Yourself People Sometimes
Learnt
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Today, the UK must be the pioneer of a new model of economic change, that integrates social and environmental consideration. This is not just a question of values and moral duty. It is about our economy's capacity to sustain itself
David Miliband / British Politician
Business
Environmental
Pioneers
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I can't admit to myself that the creation of a Palestinian state won't happen. What I know is that with each passing year it gets more and more difficult to happen, not least because there is more and more bloodshed, generation upon generation.
David Miliband / British Politician
Bloodshed
Creation
Palestinian
Passing
Admit
More And More
Palestinian State
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The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later.
David Miliband / British Politician
Wedding
Aunt
Brussels
Died
Grandfather
Hands
Wedding Ring
Years
Ring
Bought
Finger
Louise
Placed
Samuel
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What is the big political issue for Britain at the moment? Without wishing to sound portentous, it is about whether we can build a social democratic settlement, whether we can lay the political and cultural foundations for the next several years.
David Miliband / British Politician
Britain
Democratic
Settlement
Cultural
Foundations
Lay
Several
Wishing
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I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, its perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there.
David Miliband / British Politician
Said
Should
Water
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I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, it's perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there.
David Miliband / British Politician
Clash
Extraordinary
Guantanamo
Ideals
Pragmatism
Torture
Always Me Anything
Abhor
Closed
Perfectly
Perfectly Clear
Rendition
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The 1970s - I was ten in 1975 - were a bad decade in all sorts of ways but the middle class had comfortable assumptions about the prospects for its children. The middle class was smaller then; it was a much less competitive Britain, less meritocratic.
David Miliband / British Politician
Britain
Middle Class
Prospects
Ten
Assumptions
Competitive
Decade
Smaller
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Israelis and Palestinians are suspicious of each other and of promises from outside. But the need for a negotiated solution between the parties should not stymie international clarity and consensus about the endgame in terms of borders and other issues.
David Miliband / British Politician
Borders
Clarity
Consensus
Endgame
International
Suspicious
Israelis
Palestinians
Parties
Promises
Solution
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The two biggest threats to international security in 2013 are Iran getting a nuclear weapon, and Iran being bombed to stop it getting a nuclear weapon. Both would precipitate a long and dangerous conflict in an already unstable Middle East. Both would be a disaster.
David Miliband / British Politician
Conflict
Dangerous
Disaster
East
International
Iran
Middle East
Nuclear
Unstable
Bombed
Weapon
Nuclear Weapon
Threats
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One of the things about the modern world is that the public and the private - which is not the same as the public and the personal - but the public and the private... it's very, very much harder than it used to be to have things that are private and things that are public.
David Miliband / British Politician
Harder
Modern World
One Of The Things
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The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.
David Miliband / British Politician
Opportunity
Britain
Class
Middle Class
Mobile Phones
Nigeria
Phones
Population
Ten
Africa
African
Million People
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I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is.
David Miliband / British Politician
Teacher
Britain
Contribution
Country
Mean
Plus
Teachers
Bulk
Businesspeople
Vast
Educators
Journalists
Muslim
Muslims
Strongly
Vibrant
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There is a danger for Britain as we perceive ourselves, or as we are - less wealthy, facing economic austerity - that we essentially draw back. I think there is a recoil in parts of the country, and in parts of the government actually, from the multilateral system, and I think that's dangerous and wrong.
David Miliband / British Politician
Austerity
Britain
Danger
Economic
Perceive
Recoil
Wealthy
Government Country Back
Draw
Essentially
Facing
Multilateral
Parts
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The biggest novelty of 2013 will be new leadership in China. Very little is known about the views of the new leaders - who will rule the country for ten years. But we do know they're the first generation of Chinese leaders who have spent the majority of their lives in a China 'opening up' to the rest of the world.
David Miliband / British Politician
Leadership
China
Majority
Novelty
Opening
Ten
Views
World Will Rest
Biggest
Rest
First Generation
Generation
Leaders
Rule
Spent
Ten Years
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One thing that I feel very, very strongly is that we talk about Islamic countries, Islamic people, Islamic leaders, as either moderates or extremists. It's almost like there are only two categories of Muslims. And actually, that doesn't show respect. It shows lack of understanding of the diversity of Muslim thought.
David Miliband / British Politician
Categories
Country
Islamic
Moderates
Two
Extremists
Muslim
Muslims
Strongly
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One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients.
David Miliband / British Politician
Commonwealth
Fund
Investment
Jewels
Labour
London
Office
Outcomes
Rescue
School
Additional
Crown
Essential
Improved
Reforms
Patients
Poorer
Shown
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First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two world wars and the great depression put together. All countries will be affected, but the poorest countries will be hit hardest. Secondly, the costs of inaction far outweigh the costs of action.
David Miliband / British Politician
War
Country
Two Worlds
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First of all, we have to say loud and clear to all those who are engaged in the fighting that attention to and respect for humanitarian needs is absolutely imperative. Anyone with any knowledge of Iraq, never mind any concern about the future, knows that the way in which the war is prosecuted has a big impact on what comes afterwards.
David Miliband / British Politician
War
Fighting
Mind
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The clearest evidence that we are living beyond environmental means is the threat of dangerous climate change. The scale of this threat, to human life and to the natural resources and assets on which it depends, for everything from oxygen and clean water to healthy soils and flood defence, means that this simply must be our top priority
David Miliband / British Politician
Mean
Oxygen
Water
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We are living as if we had three planets' worth of resources to live with rather than just one. We need to cut by about two-thirds our ecological footprint. For that we need one planet farming as well as one planet living - one planet farming which minimises the impact on the environment of food production and consumption, and which maximises its contribution to renewal of the natural environment
David Miliband / British Politician
Cutting
Impact
Two
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Thirty years ago, if you said the country was living beyond its means, people would have thought about economics. Now, if you talk about the country, or the planet living beyond its means, you think about the environment. We are taking out more than we are giving back. We are consuming energy, water, and other natural resources in a way that is leading to huge and often irreversible damage to the planet. So too are most other developed nations. And so too will China and India if they follow the same path of economic development as us
David Miliband / British Politician
Country
Mean
Thinking
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