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No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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We are really doing our very best. There are no doubt many mistakes and shortcomings. A lot of things are done none too well. Some things that ought to be done have not yet been done...[But Britain's effort has] justly commanded the wonder and admiration of every friendly nation in the world.
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The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
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Nothing is perfect on the human stage.
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It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.
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In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.
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Science has given to this generation the means of unlimited disaster or of unlimited progress. There will remain the greater task of directing knowledge lastingly towards the purpose of peace and human good.
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Science should be on tap, not on top.
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If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.
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We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.
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The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.
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