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Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.

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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next 25 years, I realized that order is freedom.
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To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go.
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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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A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words they are afraid of the workings of the human mind.
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A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.
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Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
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[Magna Carta provided] a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.
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Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.
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Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
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Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference ... and the sooner the better.
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
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Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
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No matter. The dead bird does not leave the nest.
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