All my life, I ain't understand shit about what was going on. A thing just happen, then something else happen, then something else, an so on, and half the time nothing making any sense. But Dan say it is all part of a scheme of some sort, and the best way we can get along is figure out how we fit into the scheme, and then try to stick to our place. Somehow knowing this, things get a good bit clearer for me.
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WINSTON CHURCHILL Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow th... WINSTON CHURCHILL We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. WINSTON CHURCHILL A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every diff... WINSTON CHURCHILL The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every diffi... WINSTON CHURCHILL If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit... WINSTON CHURCHILL Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection. WINSTON CHURCHILL I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. WINSTON CHURCHILL Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham. WINSTON CHURCHILL Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next... WINSTON CHURCHILL A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, ... WINSTON CHURCHILL To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. WINSTON CHURCHILL True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting informat... WINSTON CHURCHILL Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. WINSTON CHURCHILL We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. WINSTON CHURCHILL Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. WINSTON CHURCHILL I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is a... WINSTON CHURCHILL Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the... WINSTON CHURCHILL You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. WINSTON CHURCHILL This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. WINSTON CHURCHILL If you're going through hell, keep going. WINSTON CHURCHILL Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. WINSTON CHURCHILL It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see. WINSTON CHURCHILL History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. WINSTON CHURCHILL If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. WINSTON CHURCHILL In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always fo... WINSTON CHURCHILL It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is neces... WINSTON CHURCHILL You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. WINSTON CHURCHILL Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. WINSTON CHURCHILL The price of greatness is responsibility. WINSTON CHURCHILL All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor... WINSTON CHURCHILL Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. WINSTON CHURCHILL Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' ... ALEX WINSTON Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened i... ROBERT WINSTON