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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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No one ever came to grief-except honorable grief-through riding horses. No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing horses, but never through riding them unless of course they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die.
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I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
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Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world.
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You must look at facts, because they look at you.
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It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear it springs from hope as well as from fear where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.
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If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.
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I have always had a curious nature I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.
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The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.
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There's no such thing as a good tax.
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Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!
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Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.
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We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
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There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.
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Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.
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My mother always seemed to me like a fairy princess: a radiant being possessed of limitless riches and power. She shone for me like the evening star. I loved her dearly.
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I love learning, but hate being taught.
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Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.
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You know, in war, you don't have to be nice. You only have to be right.
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Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.
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The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is a real feudal fortress....Eve ry family cultivates its vendetta every clan, its feud....Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid.
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