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Life is a test and this world a place of trial.

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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
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Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.
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We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.
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There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.
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No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanly directed in the first instance.
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Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
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Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.
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A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest
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Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
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I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals -- mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax to destroy horses and livestock, and the plague, in order to kill not only entire armies, but also the inhabitants of large regions.
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I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.
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We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us.
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To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.
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To improve is to change.
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Never let a good crisis go to waste
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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles others their principles for the sake of their party
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My education was interrupted only by my schooling.
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The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.
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The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.
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He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.
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