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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen Secrets of state no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master wire.
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A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.
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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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A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon.
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Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that the Japanese would embark on such a mad enterprise.
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The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.
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I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my blood, toil, tears and sweat, to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it.
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War is horrible, but slavery is worse.
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How often in life must one be content with what one can get!
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The privilege of a university education is a great one the more widely it is extended the better for any country.
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Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.
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The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
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It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.
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A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.
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When I look round to see how we can win the war, I see that there is only one sure path . . . and that is absolutely devastating, exterminating attack by very heavy bombers from this country upon the Nazi homeland.
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[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.
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The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.
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We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us.
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An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.
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