When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb.

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What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.

I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.

Data can actually make us more human.

History is just a way of keeping score, but it doesn't have to be who we are.

The power of language – it can heal and build, or corrupt, poison, destroy, desecrate, annihilate…

you act out what it feels like to be the one who doesn’t belong. And you act it out by trying to do to others what has been done to you.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management

Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.

The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.

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