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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do.
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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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You can always rely on America to do the right thing -- once it has exhausted the alternatives.
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The most beautiful voice in the world is that of an educated Southern woman.
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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
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Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
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If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
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There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.
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Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.
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Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
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If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.
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For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.
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No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
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At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.
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Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition of the native resource. The Geological Survey had identified the inflammable oil shale in reports since at least 1888.]
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Never flinch, never weary, never despair.
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Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
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