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No crime is so great as daring to excel.
Winston Churchill
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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.
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Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
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No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
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Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.
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Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.
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Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it.
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The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.
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Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.
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In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once.
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Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.
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I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'
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The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.
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It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.
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Oh, what is the matter with poor Puggy-Wug? Pet him and kiss him and give him a hug. Run and fetch him a suitable drug. Wrap him up tenderly all in a rug. That is the way to cure Puggy-Wug.
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We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us.
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Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose
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We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
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