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Sir Winston Churchill

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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.”
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Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?
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The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
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Churchill explains that having a woman in Parliament was like...
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I sighed. "Actually, Mom, we argue pretty regularly."
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Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so...
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Every bullshit check out, read and watched makes me few percentage stupid and few with a lower IQ. S...
DEYTH BANGER
My so-called career is a haphazard thing.
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It's all right; it's not so much fun any more.
DAVID O. SELZNICK
I was making so much money I didn't care. I didn't know what to do with the money.
DAVID A. SIEGEL
I grieve nothing. I take everything.
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Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.
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California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.
YI SO-YEON
I will do my best to support science in Korea and space programs in Korea.
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I felt so free in space, flying around and unrestrained by any social relationships, but my life sin...
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It's not uncommon in South Korea for a building to not have a women's bathroom.
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I cannot believe I became some kind of hero. I'm just a common Korean woman.
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If you ask me what's harder, being famous or flying to space, I'd say fame is much harder.
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So far I see the end of the world a virus spread around the world.
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If you want loyalty - get a dog. If you want loyalty and attention - get a smart dog.
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A bookstore is one of the many pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
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I hope to write someday and that’s even more terrifying than performing. You don’t just entertai...
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Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?
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Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth;
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Dear Lord, have you brought me all this way to stop? Why, why, was I allowed to search so long, to c...
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Never have so many people, made so much money with so little talent.
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I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.
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Sir, as in so much, this depends on Hugo Chavez.
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It's very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it's very nice.
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You can only hold your stomach in for so many years.
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I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill.
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if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
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unless it...
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Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little.
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I love doing stunts. It's so much fun.
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That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs.
CHARLIE BYRD
-Sir, se lei fosse mio marito, io le avvelenerei il tè.
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Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
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I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchil...
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Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.
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Never in recent history has so much government money been put into so many programs with so little o...
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and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
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In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in th...
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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
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I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
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No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you a...
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In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best ...
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The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contrad...
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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
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There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.
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The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerit...
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last.
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The English never draw a line without blurring it.
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Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.
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The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my...
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It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
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Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.
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I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.
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No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
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I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their wil...
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Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never. Never -- in anything great or small, large or pet...
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Responsibility is the price of greatness.
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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
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Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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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 ...
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There is no such thing as a good tax.
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
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Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.
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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit t...
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Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if not...
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It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
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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...
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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been...
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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
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I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponen...
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I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely...
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I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is much better policy to prophesy after the event ...
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However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you a...
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Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
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