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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts twenty minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.
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For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.
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Good and great are seldom in the same man.
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There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt service in a thousand forms is open. There is no room now for the dilettante, the weakling, for the shirker, or the sluggard. From the highest to the humblest tasks, all are of equal honor all have their part to play.
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I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine.
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The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.
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If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.
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My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion.
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When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.
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A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.
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I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.
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Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
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Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time.
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There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety.
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I am too busy. I have not time for worry.
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Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people, our Empire, and indeed the whole English-speaking world are passing through a dark and deadly valley.
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You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.
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The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.
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Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.
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