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Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.
Winston Churchill
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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.
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The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.
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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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Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne!
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It may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.]
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English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform.
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Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.
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Don't be careless about yourselves--on the other hand not too careful. Live well but do not flaunt it. Laugh a little and teach your men to laugh--get good humor under fire--war is a game that's played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
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The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.
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If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.
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I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain.
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Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work.
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Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.
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If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.
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