He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. . . . He does not have to struggle. . . with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination. (Aneurin Bevan)

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. . . . He does not have to struggle. . . with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.

Aneurin Bevan

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