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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or events.
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It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done.
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I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.
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I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.
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What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
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There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
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There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
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If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.
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The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our British society as it has gradually developed and evolved itself, of the right of individual labouring men to adjust their wages and conditions by collective bargaining, including the right to strike.
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If you are going through hell just keep going
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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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We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges
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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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You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.
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Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.
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I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
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I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.
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For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
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The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.
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