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It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.

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Thinking, Everyday Things, Ideas

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A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.

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Self, Expression, Law

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Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

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Inspirational, Funny, Nice

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If you're not making some mistakes, it probably means you're not trying hard enough.

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Mistake, Mean, Trying

"Evan Davis: 'I'm a presenter who is gay rather than a gay presenter'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2011.

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There is a strong link between the following three things: exporting, manufacturing and the degree of saving by the population. It's complicated, but if the population doesn't save, the economy will not tend to export as much, and if it doesn't export as much, it won't manufacture enough.

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Strong, Degrees, Population

"Evan Davis: 'I'm a presenter who is gay rather than a gay presenter'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2011.

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I don't particularly like going on about being gay or making a big thing about it, but I think it's a bit of a pain to be secretive about it.

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Pain, Gay, Thinking

"Think of me as a man of mystery" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 05, 2005.

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For industry to settle in a country, you first need electricity; for electricity, you need some trained workers; for trained workers, you need some schools; for schools you need some money; for money, you need some industry.

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Country, School, Needs

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But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy.

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Clothes, Comedy, Sometimes

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The two questions that anyone ever asks me are: 'Are house prices going to go down?' and 'Is it a good time to fix my mortgage rate?'

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Two, House, Down And

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Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget.

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Engineering, Projects, British

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The key thing about me is that I'm really not very interesting.

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Keys, Interesting, Very Interesting

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Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

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Believe, Long, Tricks

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Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

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Funny, Humor, Car

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Personally, I'd like us to have a few more women on the 'Today' programme.

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Today, Programmes

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One of the key problems is that the Germans know what they do because everywhere they go there's a 'made in Germany' label on it - they can feel proud of Volkswagens and Audis and Mercedes.

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Keys, Germany, Labels

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It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.

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Writing, Want, Knows

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For years, we've grown dependant on American consumers as the world's spenders of last resort. They've kept Europe out of recession, allowed China to industrialise, and prevented global deflation. But at the same time, they've not been looking after their own futures.

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Years, Europe, World

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Even the 'Today' programme involves a balance between the worthy-but-heavy items with the worthless-but-entertainingly-light ones.

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Light, Balance, Today

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I don't want to sound like 'chirpy Evan' who's just bouncing around with his unrealistic views and doesn't understand what's going on.

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Views, Sound, Want

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I don't keep it secret that I live with my partner Gio. I'm very proud of my gayness. But there is lots I wouldn't want the press to write about me... it is a matter of regret that being gay is the most interesting thing about me.

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Regret, Writing, Gay

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It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it.

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Gay, Thinking, Views

"Evan Davis: 'I'm a presenter who is gay rather than a gay presenter'". Interview With Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.

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Most people hugely underestimate the amount of 'empty space' we have in our country. Fly over the U.K., and you see that human settlement does not fill up the U.K. at all. It accounts for something of the order of 15 per cent of the landmass.

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Country, Space, Order

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I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box.

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Party, Glasses, Office

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It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion.

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Effectiveness, Too Much, Wonder

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Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views.

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Struggle, Views, Hands

"Glad to be gay, glad to be Tory" by Evan Davis, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2012.

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