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Each One Hopes That If He Feeds The Crocodile Enough, The Crocodile Will Eat Him Last. All Of Them Hope That The Storm Will Pass Before Their Turn Comes To Be Devoured. But I Fear - I Fear Greatly - The Storm Will Not Pass. It Will Rage And It Will Roar, Even More Loudly, Even More Widely.

-Winston Churchill

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Each One Hopes That If He Feeds The Crocodile Enough, The Crocodile Will Eat Him Last. All Of Them Hope That The Storm Will Pass Before Their Turn Comes To Be Devoured. But I Fear - I Fear Greatly - The Storm Will Not Pass. It Will Rage And It Will Roar, Even More Loudly, Even More Widely.

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I Don't Like Standing Near The Edge Of A Platform When An Express Train Is Passing Through. I Like To Stand Right Back And If Possible Get A Pillar Between Me And The Train. I Don't Like To Stand By The Side Of A Ship And Look Down Into The Water. A Second's Action Would End Everything. A Few Drops Of Desperation.

The Inherent Blessing Of Socialism Is The Equal Sharing Of Misery.

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All The Great Things Are Simple.

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I Now Began For The First Time To Envy Those Young Cubs At The University Who Had Fine Scholars To Tell Them What Was What; Professors Who Had Devoted Their Lives To Mastering And Focusing Ideas In Every Branch Of Learning; Who Were Eager To Distribute The Treasures They Had Gathered Before They Were Overtaken By The Night. But Now I Pity Undergraduates, When I See What Frivolous Lives Many Of Them Lead In The Midst Of Precious Fleeting Opportunity. After All, A Man's Life Must Be Nailed To A Cross Either Of Thought Or Action. Without Work There Is No Play.

We Must Build A Kind Of United States Of Europe.

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All The Great Things Are Simple, And Many Can Be Expressed In A Single Word: Freedom, Justice, Honor, Duty, Mercy, Hope.

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Books, In All Their Variety, Offer The Human Intellect The Means Whereby Civilisation May Be Carried Triumphantly Forward.

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War, Which Used To Be Cruel And Magnificent Has Now Become Cruel And Squalid.

I Have Consistently Urged My Friends To Abstain From Reading It.

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.

Now That We Are, As You Say, 'in The Same Boat,' Would It Not Be Wise For Us To Have Another Conference ... And The Sooner The Better.

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Without Execution, Thinking Is Mere Idleness.

Air Power Is The Most Difficult Of Military Force To Measure Or Even Express In Precise Terms.

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We Shall Escape The Absurdity Of Growing A Whole Chicken In Order To Eat The Breast Or Wing, By Growing These Parts Separately Under A Suitable Medium.

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I'm Finished ... I'm Done. What I Want Above All Things Is To Take Some Active Part In Beating The Germans ... I'd Go Out To The Front At Once.

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And What A Plan! This Vast Operation Is Undoubtedly The Most Complicated And Difficult That Has Ever Occurred.

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Please Put The Ladybug Outside Without Harming Her. (to His Butler)

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Life Can Either Be Accepted Or Changed. If It Is Not Accepted, It Must Be Changed. If It Cannot Be Changed, Then It Must Be Accepted.

Saving Is A Fine Thing. Especially When Your Parents Have Done It For You.

Everyone Has A Right To Pronounce Foreign Names As He Chooses.

Nothing Is More Dangerous In Wartime Than To Live In The Temperamental Atmosphere Of A Gallup Poll, Always Feeling Ones Pulse And Taking Ones Temperature. I See That A Speaker At The Week-end Said That This Was A Time When Leaders Should Keep Their Ears To The Ground. All I Can Say Is That The British Nation Will Find It Very Hard To Look Up To Leaders Who Are Detected In That Somewhat Ungainly Posture.

One Evening At Chequers The Film Was Oliver Twist. Rufus, As Usual, Had The Best Seat In The House, On His Master's Lap. At The Point When Bill Sikes Was About To Drown His Dog To Put The Police Off His Track, Churchill Covered Rufus's Eyes With His Hand. He Said, "don't Look Now, Dear. I'll Tell You About It Afterwards."

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If You Don't Take Change By The Hand, It Will Take You By The Throat.

The Great War Differed From All Ancient Wars In The Immense Power Of The Combatants And Their Fearful Agencies Of Destruction, And From All Modern Wars In The Utter Ruthlessness With Which It Was Fought.

It Is In The Interest Of The Wage-earner To Have Many Other Alternatives Open To Him Than Service Under One All-powerful Employer Called The State

There Is In The Act Of Preparing, The Moment You Start Caring.

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The Russians Will Try All The Rooms In A House, Enter Those That Are Not Locked, And When They Come To One That Cannot Be Broken Into, They Will Withdraw And Invite You To Dine Genially That Same Evening.

When There Is No Enemy Within, The Enemies Outside Cannot Hurt You.

To Improve Is To Change.

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And You, Madam, Are Ugly. But I Shall Be Sober In The Morning.

The Battle Of France Is Over. The Battle Of Britain Is About To Begin. Upon This Battle Depends The Future Of Christian Civilisation.

In The Past We Have Had A Light Which Flickered, In The Present We Have A Light Which Flames, And In The Future There Will Be A Light Which Shines Over All The Land And Sea.

If This Is A Blessing, It Is Certainly Very Well Disguised.

Headmasters Have Powers At Their Disposal With Which Prime Ministers Have Never Yet Been Invested.

We Should Lay Aside Every Hindrance And Endeavour By Uniting The Whole Force And Spirit Of Our People To Raise Again A Great British Nation Standing Up Before All The World; For Such A Nation, Rising In Its Ancient Vigour, Can Even At This Hour Save Civilization.

Never Yield To The Apparently Overwhelming Might Of The Enemy.

All Was There-the Programme Of German Resurrection, The Technique Of Party Propaganda; The Plan For Combating Marxism; The Concept Of A National-socialist State; The Rightful Position Of Germany At The Summit Ofthe World. Here Was The New Koran Of Faith And War: Turgid, Verbose, Shapeless, But Pregnant With Its Message.

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