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Winston Churchill
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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.
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The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.
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History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future and none at all over the past.
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Without ships, we cannot live.
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If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.
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When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
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All this contains much that is obviously true, and much that is relevant unfortunately, what is obviously true is not relevant, and what is relevant is not obviously true.
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I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.
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How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.
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America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.
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Leadership is the intelligent use of power.
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Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.
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There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.
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Doubts could be swept away only by deeds.
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Writing a book is an adventure.
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