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Denis Healey


Born
in Mottingham, Kent, England
August 30, 1917

Died
October 03, 2015

Genre
Memoir, Politics


Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey CH, MBE, PC, was a British Labour politician, who served as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979.

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Average rating: 3.97 · 188 ratings · 15 reviews · 31 distinct works • Similar authors
The Time of My Life
4.09 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 1989 — 13 editions
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My Secret Planet
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions
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Healey's eye: A photographi...
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1980
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When Shrimps Learn to Whistle
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions
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Denis Healey's Yorkshire Dales
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions
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Healey's World: Travels Wit...
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Beyond Nuclear Deterrence
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新生ヨーロッパへの展望 New European Si...
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Neutral Belt in Europe
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DENNIS HEALEY - THE TIME OF...
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“Healey’s First Law Of Holes: When in one, stop digging.”
― Denis Healey
tags: dicta, efficiency, effort, futility, holes, wisdom
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“World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.”
― Denis Healey
tags: politics
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“The Prime Minister says that she has given the French President a piece of her mind – this is not a gift I would receive with alacrity.”
― Denis Healey
tags: margaret-thatcher
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