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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.

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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.

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The Positive Thinker Sees The Invisible, Feels The Intangible, And Achieves The Impossible.

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It Is Not Alone That Property, In All Its Forms, Is Struck At, But That Liberty, In All Its Forms, Is Challenged By The Fundamental Conceptions Of Socialism.

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We Must Be United, We Must Be Undaunted, We Must Be Inflexible. Our Qualities And Deeds Must Burn And Glow Through The Gloom Oeurope Until They Become The Veritable Beacon Oits Salvation.

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The Tired Parts Of The Mind Can Be Rested And Strengthened Not Merely By Rest, But By Using Other Parts.

We Are Shaping The World Faster Than We Can Change Ourselves, And We Are Applying To The Present The Habits Of The Past.

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Golf. Trying To Knock A Tiny Ball Into An Even Smaller Hole With Implements Ill Suited To The Purpose.

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With Integrity, Nothing Else Counts. Without Integrity, Nothing Else Counts.

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The Acts We Engage In For Appeasment Today, We Will Have To Remedy At Far Greater Cost And Remorse Tomorrow.

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A Sheep In Sheep's Clothing.

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Are You An Action-oriented, Take-charge Person Interested In Exciting New Challenges? As Director Of A Major Public-sector Organization, You Will Manage A Large Armed Division And Interface With Other Senior Executives In A Team-oriented, Multinational Initiative In The Global Marketplace. Successful Candidate Will Have Above-average Oral-presentation Skills

...every Offensive Lost Its Force As It Proceeded. It Was Like Throwing A Bucket Of Water Over The Floor. It First Rushed Forward, Then Soaked Forward, And Finally Stopped Altogether Until Another Bucket Could Be Brought.

Socialism Is Inseparably Interwoven With Totalitarianism And The Object Worship Of The State.

I Should Have Liked To Be Asked To Say What I Knew. They Always Tried To Ask What I Did Not Know. When I Would Have Willingly Displayed My Knowledge, They Sought To Expose My Ignorance. This Sort Of Treatment Had Only One Result: I Did Not Do Well In Examinations

Victory Is Not Final. Defeat Is Not Failure. It's All About Courage.

He Has To Conceal What He Would Most Wish To Make Public, And Make Public What He Would Most Wish To Conceal.

If Hitler Invaded Hell I Would Make At Least A Favourable Reference To The Devil In The House Of Commons.

It Is Always More Easy To Discover And Proclaim General Principles Than It Is To Apply Them.

It Was The Nation And The Race Dwelling All Round The Globe That Had The Lion's Heart. I Had The Luck To Be Called Upon To Give The Roar.

We Must Learn From Misfortune The Means Of Future Strength.

The Russian Bolsheviks Have Discovered That Truth Does Not Matter So Long As There Is Reiteration. They Have No Difficulty Whatever In Countering A Fact By A Lie Which, If Repeated Often Enough And Loudly Enough, Becomes Accepted By The People.

The V Sign Is The Symbol Of The Unconquerable Will Of The Occupied Territories, And A Portent Of The Fate Awaiting The Nazi Tyranny.

Unconquerable Will

When I Look Round To See How We Can Win The War, I See That There Is Only One Sure Path . . . And That Is Absolutely Devastating, Exterminating Attack By Very Heavy Bombers From This Country Upon The Nazi Homeland.

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

I Am Very Glad There Are Quite A Number Of People Born With A Gift And A Liking For All Of This; Like Great Chessplayers Who Play Sixteen Games At Once Blindfold And Die Quite Soon Of Epilepsy. Serve Them Right! I Hope The Mathematicians, However, Are Well Rewarded. I Promise Never To Blackleg Their Profession Nor Take The Bread Out Of Their Mouths.

One Can Usually Put One's Thoughts Better In One's Own Words.

The Poodle [rufus] Ate In The Dining Room With The Rest Of The [churchill] Family. A Cloth Was Laid For Him On The Persian Carpet Beside The Head Of The Household, And No One Else Ate Until The Butler Had Served Rufus's Meal.

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.'

At The Depths Of That Dusty Soul There Is Nothing But Abject Surrender.

Plans Are Worthless. Planning Is Priceless.

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It May Well Be That We Shall By A Process Of Sublime Irony Have Reached A State In This Story Where Safety Will Be The Sturdy Child Of Terror, And Survival The Twin Brother Of Annihilation.

Playing Golf Is Like Chasing A Quinine Pill Around A Cow Pasture.

If You Are Going To Go Through Hell, Keep Going

Socialism Is An Attack On The Right To Breathe Freely. No Socialist System Can Be Established Without A Political Police.

Tidiness Is A Virtue, Symmetry Is Often A Constituent Of Beauty.

The Enemy Is Still Proud And Powerful. He Is Hard To Get At. He Still Possesses Enormous Armies, Vast Resources, And Invaluable Strategic Territories...no One Can Tell What New Complications And Perils Might Arise In Four Or Five More Years Of War. And It Is In The Dragging-out Of The War At Enormous Expense, Until The Democracies Are Tired Or Bored Or Split That The Main Hopes Of Germany And Japan Must Reside.

...the High Roads Of The Future Will Be Clear, Not Only For Us But For All, Not Only For Our Time But For A Century To Come.

This Is No War Of Chieftains Or Of Princes, Of Dynasties Or National Ambition; It Is A War Of Peoples And Of Causes. There Are Vast Numbers, Not Only In This Island But In Every Land, Who Will Render Faithful Service In This War, But Whose Names Will Never Be Known, Whose Deeds Will Never Be Recorded. This Is A War Of The Unknown Warriors

If The British Empire Is Fated To Pass From Life Into History, We Must Hope It Will Not Be By The Slow Process Of Dispersion And Decay, But In Some Supreme Exertion For Freedom, For Right And For Truth.

In Hitler's Launching Of The Nazi Campaign Upon Russia We Can Already See, After Less Than Six Months Of Fighting, That He Made One Of The Outstanding Blunders Of History, And The Results So Far Realized Constitute An Event Of Cardinal Importance In The Final Decision Of The War.

It Is A Fine Game To Play - The Game Of Politics - And It Is Well Worth Waiting For A Good Hand Before Really Plunging.

Schools Have Not Necessarily Much To Do With Education...they Are Mainly Institutions Of Control Where Certain Basic Habits Must Be Inculcated In The Young. Education Is Quite Different And Has Little Place In School.

Education And Freedom

It Is A Curious Fact About British Islanders, Who Hate Drill And Have Not Been Invaded For Nearly A Thousand Years, That As Danger Comes Nearer And Grows They Become Progressively Less Nervous; When It Is Imminent The Are Fierce, When It Is Mortal They Are Fearless.

The First Duty Of A University Is To Teach Wisdom, Not Trade; Character, Not Technicalities.

Just To Paint Is Great Fun ... Try It If You Have Not Done So - Before You Die.

It Is Not Enough That We Do Our Best; Sometimes We Must Do What Is Required.

It Is No Use Saying, 'we Are Doing Our Best.' You Have Got To Succeed In Doing What Is Necessary.

You Will Never Reach Your Destination If You Stop And Throw Stones At Every Dog That Barks.

Writing A Book Is An Adventure. To Begin With It Is A Toy And An Amusement. Then It Becomes A Mistress, Then It Becomes A Master, Then It Becomes A Tyrant. The Last Phase Is That Just As You Are About To Be Reconciled To Your Servitude, You Kill The Monster And Fling Him To The Public.

The Gin And Tonic Has Saved More Englishmen's Lives, And Minds, Than All The Doctors In The Empire.

It Is Better To Be Frightened Now Than Killed Hereafter

The Eagle Has Ceased To Scream, But The Parrots Will Now Begin To Chatter. The War Of The Giants Is Over And The Pigmies Will Now Start To Squabble.

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