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| The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| The price of greatness is responsibility. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hillswe shall never surrender. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| We shall not fail or falter we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.' |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril but the new view must come, the world must roll forward. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| I wish they would only take me as I am. |
Vincent Van Gogh |
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| I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. |
Vincent Van Gogh |
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| The best way to know God is to love many things. |
Vincent Van Gogh |
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| Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. |
Vincent Van Gogh |
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| Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. |
Vincent Van Gogh |
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| If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle. |
Vincent Van Gogh |
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| How can I be useful, of what service can I be There is something inside me, what can it be |
Vincent Van Gogh |
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| One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way. |
Vincent Van Gogh |
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| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
Vincent Van Gogh |
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| What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything |
Vincent Van Gogh |
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| It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures. |
Vincent Van Gogh |
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| It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent. |
Vincent Van Gogh |
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| If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things. |
Vincent Van Gogh |
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| Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. |
Vincent Van Gogh |
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| Do not quench your inspiration and your inmagination do not become the slave of your model. |
Vincent Van Gogh |
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| Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. |
Vincent Van Gogh |
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| Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. |
Vincent Van Gogh |
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| There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. |
Vincent Van Gogh |
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| Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind-manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will rea |
Aldous Huxley |
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| You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but now, as yet, intelligent enough. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| Experience teaches only the teachable. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| My fate cannot be mastered it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| Experience is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| Maybe this world is another planet's hell. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| Death Its the only thing we havent succeeded in completely vulgarizing. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been devided as fools and madmen. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subltly and feel nobly. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| When one's ill or unhappy, one needs something outside oneself to hold one up. It is a good thing, I think, when one has been knocked out of one's balance . to have some external job or duty to hang on to. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| Such prosperity as we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. |
Aldous Huxley |
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