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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into action, and enshrined in immutable laws a million years ago by the white ant.
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Doubts could be swept away only by deeds.
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Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
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I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.
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Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die.
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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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A love of tradition has never weakened a nation.
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I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something.
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The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.
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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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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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In Success you deserve it and in defeat, you need it.
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The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple language or whether they adventurously aspire to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.
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The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits—not animals…. There’s something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.
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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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Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.
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An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.
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To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.
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