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There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.
Winston Churchill
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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta.
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I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.
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