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I don't think that we should try and beat history.

— Jenny Shipley

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Let this year be one where parties say what they stand for, not against. Let's get rid of the whingeing and weak criticism which occurs for the sake of it.

This is an extraordinary set of circumstances that currently prevail. I think we must wait and see what occurs.

Most New Zealanders are colourful and determined people, ambitious, forward looking, energetic and productive, caring and compassionate.

The way to solve it is not necessarily becoming more liberal but rather trying to find ways that both educate, treat people who are clearly ill and deny access where that's possible.

We can't look back nostalgically as some are wont to do, to failed remedies of the past. We must keep up, keep going, keep progressing.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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