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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
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It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.
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It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.
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The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.
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It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.
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When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!
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Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.
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A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]
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The most beautiful voice in the world is that of an educated Southern woman.
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A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.
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The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward spoke of a time of evil that was coming upon the land his inspired mutterings struck terror into the hearers.
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We need to be strong in order to avoid war and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains.
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The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.
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All the great things are simple.
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A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest
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There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it.
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Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.
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Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.
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The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!
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