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Alan John Simpson is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Nottingham South from 1992 to 2010.

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Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

– Alan Simpson

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A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.

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An educated man ... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

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The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

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He told me I only had 10 minutes. He was direct about it. It wasn't even funny.

– Alan Simpson

Found on CNN 6 years ago

Just go ahead and support Hillary and forget it! they may not like Trump -- they didn't like Bush. What the hell was wrong with Bush? What the hell is wrong with Kasich?

– Alan Simpson

Found on CNN 8 years ago

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