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I did not like the man [Niels Bohr] when you showed him to me, with his hair all overhis head.
Winston Churchill
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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
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If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.
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I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.
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What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes.
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Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.
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Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders' hearth.
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These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts.
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Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.
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Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.
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When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the subject.
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I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
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They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.
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How often in life must one be content with what one can get!
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I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'
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I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
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