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A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.
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No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
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It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.
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Today I may way before an awestruck world I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul.
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We Shall come through! We cannot tell when, we cannot tell how, but we shall come through.
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It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.
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Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses.
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One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.
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Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well.
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The Dark Ages may return-the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of Science and what might now shower immeasureable material blessings upon mankind may even bring about its total destruction. Beware! I say. Time may be short. Referring to the discovery of atomic energy.
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Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
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I was happy as a child with my toys in my nursery. I been happier every year since I became a man. But this interlude of school makes a somber grey patch upon the chart of my journey. It was a unending spell of worries that did not then seem petty, and of toil uncheered by fruition a time of discomfort, restriction and purposeless monotony.
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It is never possible to guarantee success, it is only possible to deserve it.
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Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die.
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Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!
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