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How often in life must one be content with what one can get!
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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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...to win by one is enough.
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It is not given to princes, statesmen and captains to pierce the mysteries of the future, and even the most penetrating gaze reaches only conclusions which, however seemingly vindicated at a given moment, are inexorably effaced by time.
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Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage.
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Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
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There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.
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Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!
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The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!
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An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April we pay it back with golden interest five months later.
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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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A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future.
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Everybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and walk away from it.
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
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The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening.
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If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
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...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.
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How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.
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There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.
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