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From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn't mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.

— Harold Wilson Prime Minister (1964)

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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

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