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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.

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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.

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He Has All Of The Virtues I Dislike And None Of The Vices I Admire.

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The Empires Of The Future Are The Empires Of The Mind.

I Look Like A Down-and-out Drunk Who Has Been Picked Out Of The Gutter In The Strand.

The Jury System Has Come To Stand For All We Mean By English Justice. The Scrutiny Of 12 Honest Jurors Provides Defendants And Plaintiffs Alike A Safeguard From Arbitrary Perversion Of The Law.

From The Days Of Weishaupt To Those Of Karl Marx... This World-wide Conspiracy For The Overthrow Of Civilization And For The Reconstitution Of Society... Has Been Steadily Growing.

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

Life Is Fraught With Opportunities To Keep Your Mouth Shut.

Before Alamein We Never Had A Victory. After Alamein We Never Had A Defeat.

Don't Argue About The Difficulties. The Difficulties Will Argue For Themselves.

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It Is Very Easy To Say That Your Opponents Have Been Guilty Of A Breach Of Faith, But It Is A Great Mistake To Splash The Paint About So Freely That Your Words Cease To Have Any Real Meaning And Cease To Carry Any Sense Of Affront Even To Those To Whom They Are Applied And Cease To Bear Any Connection With Any Genuine Feeling Of Indignation On The Part Of Those On Whose Behalf They Are Spoken.

No One Can Understand History Without Continually Relating The Long Periods Which Are Constantly Mentioned To The Experiences Of Our Own Short Lives.

Russian May Seem Narrow-minded, Impudent, Or Even Stupid People, But Can Only Pray For Those Who Are Against Them.

Courage Is The Ability To Go From Failure To Failure With Enthusiasm.

My Tastes Are Simple. I Like Only The Very Best.

Go Into The Sunshine And Be Happy With What You See.

Show Me A Young Conservative And I'll Show You Someone With No Heart. Show Me An Old Liberal And I'll Show You Someone With No Brains.

What Is The Use Of Living, If It Be Not To Strive For Noble Causes And To Make This Muddled World A Better Place For Those Who Will Live In It After We Are Gone?

It Is Remarkable That Lord Esher Should Be So Much Astray...we Must Conclude That An Uncontrollable Fondness For Fiction Forbade Him To Forsake It For Fact. Such Constancy Is A Defect In An Historian.

A Nation Which Has Forgotten Its Past Can Have No Future.

There Is Only One Answer To Defeat And That Is Victory.

It Saves A Lot Of Trouble If, Instead Of Having To Earn Money And Save It, You Can Just Go And Borrow It.

You Do Your Worst, And We'll Do Our Best.

I Always Seem To Get Inspiration And Renewed Vitality By Contact With This Great Novel Land Of Yours Which Sticks Up Out Of The Atlantic.

I Am A Sporting Man. I Always Like To Give Trains And Aeroplanes A Fair Chance Of Getting Away.

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.

There Is Required For The Composition Of A Great Commander Not Only Massive Common Sense And Reasoning Power, Not Only Imagination, But Also An Element Of Legerdemain, An Original And Sinister Touch, Which Leaves The Enemy Puzzled As Well As Beaten.

It Is The People Who Control The Government, Not The Government The People.

The Only Statistics You Can Trust Are Those You Falsified Yourself.

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History With Its Flickering Lamp Stumbles Along The Trail Of The Past, Trying To Reconstruct Its Scenes, To Revive Its Echoes, And Kindle With Pale Gleams The Passion Of Former Days. What Is The Worth Of All This? The Only Guide To A Man Is His Conscience; The Only Shield To His Memory Is The Rectitude And Sincerity Of His Actions. It Is Very Imprudent To Walk Through Life Without This Shield, Because We Are So Often Mocked By The Failure Of Our Hopes And The Upsetting Of Our Calculations; But With This Shield, However The Fates May Play, We March Always In The Ranks Of Honor.

What Is A Fine Person Or A Beauteous Face, Unless Deportment Give Them Decent Grace; Blessed With All Other Requisites To Please, To Want The Striking Elegance Of Ease; Awkward, Embarrassed, Stiff, Without The Skill Of Moving Gracefully, Or Standing Still.

The Only Thing That Ever Really Frightened Me During The War Was The U-boat Peril...it Did Not Take The Form Of Flaring Battles And Glittering Achievements, It Manifested Itself Through Statistics, Diagrams, And Curves Unknown To The Nation, Incomprehensible To The Public.

By Being So Long In The Lowest Form [at Harrow] I Gained An Immense Advantage Over The Cleverer Boys. . . . I Got Into My Bones The Essential Structure Of The Ordinary British Sentence - Which Is A Noble Thing. Naturally I Am Biased In Favor Of Boys Learning English; I Would Make Them All Learn English: And Then I Would Let The Clever Ones Learn Latin As An Honor, And Greek As A Treat.

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Broadly Speaking, Human Beings May Be Divided Into Three Classes: Those Who Are Billed To Death, Those Who Are Worried To Death, And Those Who Are Bored To Death.

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Christmas Is A Season Not Only Of Rejoicing But Of Reflection.

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Our Inheritance Of Well-founded, Slowly Conceived Codes Of Honor, Morals And Manners, The Passionate Convictions Which So Many Hundreds Of Millions Share Together Of The Principles Of Freedom And Justice, Are Far More Precious To Us Than Anything Which Scientific Discoveries Could Bestow.

There Is No Merit In Putting Off A War For A Year If, When It Comes, It Is Far Worse Or Much Harder To Win.

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Our Future Is In Our Hands. Our Lives Are What We Choose To Make Them.

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We Shall Draw From The Heart Of Suffering Itself The Means Of Inspiration And Survival.

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Have No Fear Of The Future. Let Us Go Forward Into Its Mysteries, Tear Away The Veils Which Hide It From Our Eyes, And Move Onwards With Confidence And Courage.

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[my Ideal Of A Good Dinner] Is To Discuss Good Food, And, After This Good Food Has Been Discussed, To Discuss A Good Topic - With Myself The Chief Conversationalist.

The Belief That Security Can Be Obtained By Throwing A Small State To The Wolves Is A Fatal Delusion.

You Were Given The Choice Between War And Dishonor. You Chose Dishonor And You Will Have War.

The Game Of Life Does Not Proceed Like A Mathematical Calculation On The Principle That Two And Two Make Four. Sometimes They Make Five, Or Minus Four, And Sometimes The Blackboard Topples Over In The Middle Of The Sum And The Pedagogue Is Left With A Black Eye.

It Would Be An Inconvenient Rule If Nothing Could Be Done Until Everything Can Be Done.

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When You Are Going Through Hell, Keep On Going. Never Never Never Give Up.

Science Has Given To This Generation The Means Of Unlimited Disaster Or Of Unlimited Progress. There Will Remain The Greater Task Of Directing Knowledge Lastingly Towards The Purpose Of Peace And Human Good.

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We See Nothing But Good And Hope In A Richer, Freer, More Contented European Commonalty. But We Have Our Own Dreams And Our Own Task. We Are With Europe, But Not Of It. We Are Linked, But Not Comprised. We Are Interested And Associated, But Not Absorbed.

Diplomacy Is The Art Of Telling Plain Truths Without Giving Offense.

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

My Education Was Interrupted Only By My Schooling.

This Is No Time For Ease And Comfort. It Is Time To Dare And Endure.

The Element Of The Unexpected And The Unforeseeable Is What Gives Some Of Its Relish To Life And Saves Us From Falling Into The Mechanical Thralldom Of The Logicians.

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

Victory Is Only Wrested By Running Risks.

You Don't Make The Poor Richer By Making The Rich Poorer.

In Russia A Man Is Called Reactionary If He Objects To Having His Property Stolen And His Wife And Children Murdered.

It Is More Agreeable To Have The Power To Give Than To Receive.

Peace Will Not Be Preserved By Pious Sentiments.

I Must Place On Record My Regret That The Human Race Ever Learned To Fly.

The Era Of Procrastination, Of Half-measures, Of Soothing And Baffling Expedients, Of Delays Is Coming To Its Close. In Its Place We Are Entering A Period Of Consequences.

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I Remember When I Was A Child, Being Taken To The Celebrated Barnum's Circus, Which Contained An Exhibition Of Freaks And Monstrosities, But The Exhibit On The Program Which I Most Desired To See Was The One Described As ‘the Boneless Wonder’. My Parents Judged That The Spectacle Would Be Too Demoralizing And Revolting For My Youthful Eye And I Have Waited Fifty Years, To See The Boneless Wonder Sitting On The Treasury Bench.

If The Almighty Were To Rebuild The World And Asked Me For Advice, I Would Have English Channels Round Every Country. And The Atmosphere Would Be Such That Anything Which Attempted To Fly Would Be Set On Fire.

The Head Cannot Take In More Than The Seat Can Endure.

In Finance Everything That Is Agreeable Is Unsound And Everything That Is Sound Is Disagreeable.

I Am Sure That The Mistakes Of That Time Will Not Be Repeated; We Should Probably Make Another Set Of Mistakes.

We Used To Be A Source Of Fuel; We Are Increasingly Becoming A Sink. These Supplies Of Foreign Liquid Fuel Are No Doubt Vital To Our Industry, But Our Ever-increasing Dependence Upon Them Ought To Arouse Serious And Timely Reflection. The Scientific Utilisation, By Liquefaction, Pulverisation And Other Processes, Or Our Vast And Magnificent Deposits Of Coal, Constitutes A National Object Of Prime Importance.

...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.

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, If You Were My Husband, I'd Poison Your Tea. Churchill: Nancy, If I Were Your Husband, I'd Drink It.

I Am Always Ready To Learn Although I Do Not Always Like Being Taught.

Perfectionism Spells Paralysis.

Never Engage In A Battle Of Wits With An Unarmed Man.

I Am Not Invested With Dictatorial Powers. If I Were, I Should Be Quite Ready To Dictate.

I Am A Man Of Simple Tastes-i Am Quite Easily Satisfied With The Best Of Everything.

I Had Been Brought Up And Trained To Have The Utmost Contempt For People Who Got Drunk - And I Would Have Liked To Have The Boozing Scholars Of The Universities Wheeled Into Line And Properly Chastised For Their Squalid Misuse Of What I Must Ever Regard As A Gift Of The Gods.

Those Whose Work And Pleasure Are One... Are... Fortune's Favoured Children.

How Little Can We Foresee The Consequences Either Of Wise Or Unwise Action, Of Virtue Or Of Malice. Without This Measureless And Perpetual Uncertainty, The Drama Of Human Life Would Be Destroyed.

The United Nations Was Set Up Not To Get Us To Heaven, But Only To Save Us From Hell.

Fancy Living In One Of These Streets, Never Seeing Anything Beautiful, Never Eating Anything Savoury, Never Saying Anything Clever!

I Am Easily Satisfied With The Very Best.

...have The Stresses Of War Been As Bad To You Personally As Carrying Through The Policy Of Collective Farms?

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.

They [the Labour Party] Are Not Fit To Manage A Whelk Stall.

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.'

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.

I Love To Learn But I Do Not Want To Be Taught

You Must Look At Facts, Because They Look At You.

Kites Rise Highest Against The Wind - Not With It.

The Flame Of Christian Ethics Is Still Our Highest Guide.

We Make Our Buildings, And Then Our Buildings Make And Shape Us.

The Best Argument Against Democracy Is A Five-minute Conversation With The Average Voter.

The Inherent Vice Of Capitalism Is The Unequal Sharing Of Blessings; The Inherent Virtue Of Socialism Is The Equal Sharing Of Miseries.

Things Do Not Get Better By Being Left Alone.

A Man Who Gets The Reputation Of Rising At Dawn Can Sleep To Noon.

Air Power Can Either Paralyze The Enemy's Military Action Or Compel Him To Devote To The Defense Of His Bases And Communications A Share Of His Straitened Resources Far Greater That What We Need In The Attack.

Without Tradition, Art Is A Flock Of Sheep Without A Shepherd. Without Innovation, It Is A Corpse.

You Never Can Tell Whether Bad Luck May Not After All Turn Out To Be Good Luck.

Sure I Am This Day We Are Masters Of Our Fate, That The Task Which Has Been Set Before Us Is Not Above Our Strength; That Its Pangs And Toils Are Not Beyond Our Endurance. As Long As We Have Faith In Our Own Cause And An Unconquerable Will To Win, Victory Will Not Be Denied Us.

You Can Measure A Man's Character By The Choices He Makes Under Pressure.

A Study Of Disease-of Pestilences Methodically Prepared And Deliberately Launched Upon Man And Beast-is Certainly Being Pursue In The Laboratories Of More Than One Great Country. Blight To Destroy Crops, Anthrax To Slay Horses And Cattle, Plague To Poison Not Armies But Whole Districts - Such Are The Lines Along Which Military Science Is Remorselessly Advancing.

Courage Is The Greatest Virtue Because It Guarantees All The Rest.

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.

'no Comment' Is A Splendid Expression. I Am Using It Again And Again.

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

Working Hours Are Never Long Enough. Each Day Is A Holiday, And Ordinary Holidays Are Grudged As Enforced Interruptions In An Absorbing Vocation.

A Polo Handicap Is A Persons Ticket To The World.

Talking Death Seriously Is One Of The Tragedies Of Youth

[much] As War Attracts Me And Fascinates My Mind With Its Tremendous Situations, I Feel More Deeply Every Year . . . What Vile And Wicked Folly And Barbarism It All Is.

Let The Children Have Their Night Of Fun And Laughter, Let The Gifts Of Father Christmas Delight Their Play. Let Us Grown-ups Share To The Full In Their Unstinted Pleasures.

For The First 25 Years Of My Life, I Wanted Freedom. For The Next 25 Years, I Wanted Order. For The Next 25 Years, I Realized That Order Is Freedom.

The Further Back I Look, The Further Forward I Can See.

The Nation Will Find It Very Hard To Look Up To The Leaders Who Are Keeping Their Ears To The Ground.

... I Think It Would Be So Much Better For Me To Learn Something Which Would Be Useful To Me In The Army, As Well As Affording Me Exercise And Amusement.

It Is Easier To Give Directions Than Advice, And More Agreeable To Have The Right To Act, Even In A Limited Sphere, Than The Privilege To Talk At Large.

People Who Are Not Prepared To Do Unpopular Things And Defy The Clamor Of The Multitude Are Not Fit To Be Ministers In Time Of Difficulty.

Danger Gathers Upon Our Path. We Cannot Afford - We Have No Right - To Look Back. We Must Look Forward

Of All The Talents Bestowed Upon Men, None Is So Precious As The Gift Of Oratory. He Who Enjoys It Wields A Power More Durable Than That Of A Great King. He Is An Independent Force In The World.

I Get My Exercise Being A Pallbearer For Those Of My Friends Who Believed In Regular Running And Calisthenics.

If You Make 10,000 Regulations You Destroy All Respect For The Law.

You See These Dictators Up On Their Pedestals, Surrounded By The Bayonets Of Their Soldiers And The Truncheons Of Their Police. They're Afraid Of Words And Thought. ... They Make Frantic Efforts To Bar Our Thoughts And Words. ... A State Of Society Where Men May Not Speak Their Mind - Where Children Denounce Their Parents To The Police - Where A Businessman Or Small Shopkeeper Ruins His Competitor By Telling Tales About His Private Opinion. Such A State Of Society Cannot Long Endure If It Is Continually In Contact With The Healthy Outside World.

It May Be That Those Whose Work Is Their Pleasure Are Those Who Most Need The Means Of Banishing It At Intervals From Their Minds.

All Men Make Mistakes, But Only Wise Men Learn From Their Mistakes.

Some People Regard Private Enterprise As A Predatory Tiger To Be Shot. Others Look On It As A Cow They Can Milk. Not Enough People See It As A Healthy Horse, Pulling A Sturdy Wagon.

I Do Think Unpunctuality Is A Vile Habit, And All My Life I Have Tried To Break Myself Of It.

Science Bestowed Immense New Powers On Man, And At The Same Time, Created Conditions Which Were Largely Beyond His Comprehension.

When They Told Me That By The Year 2100 Women Would Rule The World, My Reply Was 'still?'

Rules Were Made For Fools To Follow And Wise Men To Be Guided By.

No Matter. The Dead Bird Does Not Leave The Nest.

I Thought Of A Remark . . . That The United States Is Like A 'gigantic Boiler. Once The Fire Is Lighted Under It There Is No Limit To The Power It Can Generate.' Being Saturated And Satiated With Emotion And Sensation, I Went To Bed And Slept The Sleep Of The Saved And Thankful.

Thus, Then, On The Night Of The Tenth Of May, At The Outset Of This Mighty Battle, I Acquired The Chief Power In The State, Which Henceforth I Wielded In Ever-growing Measure For Five Years And Three Months Of World War, At The End Of Which Time, All Our Enemies Having Surrendered Unconditionally Or Being About To Do So, I Was Immediately Dismissed By The British Electorate From All Further Conduct Of Their Affairs.

We Are Really Doing Our Very Best. There Are No Doubt Many Mistakes And Shortcomings. A Lot Of Things Are Done None Too Well. Some Things That Ought To Be Done Have Not Yet Been Done...[but Britain's Effort Has] Justly Commanded The Wonder And Admiration Of Every Friendly Nation In The World.

There Are No People In The World Who Are So Slow To Develop Hostile Feelings Against A Foreign Country As The Americans, And No People Who, Once Estranged, Are More Difficult To Win Back.

The Only Thing That Ever Really Frightened Me During The War Was The U-boat Peril.

You Must Understand That This War Is Not Against Hitler Or National Socialism, But Against The Strength Of The German People, Which Is To Be Smashed Once And For All, Regardless Of Whether It Is In The Hands Of Hitler Or A Jesuit Priest.

Perfect Solutions Of Our Difficulties Are Not To Be Looked For In An Imperfect World.

Imperfect World

Here Life Itself, Life At Its Best And Healthiest, Awaits The Caprice Of The Bullet. Let Us See The Development Of The Day. All Else May Stand Over, Perhaps For Ever. Existence Is Never So Sweet As When It Is At Hazard.

[the Politician] Is Asked To Stand, He Wants To Sit, And He Is Expected To Lie.

I Do Not Presume To Explain How To Paint, But Only How To Get Enjoyment.

Attitude Is A Little Thing That Makes A Big Difference.

The Cat Does More For The War Effort Than You Do. He Acts As A Hot-water Bottle And Saves Fuel And Power.

No Lover Ever Studied Every Whim Of His Mistress As I Did Those Of President Roosevelt.

If You're Going To Walk Through Hell, Keep Going.

It Is Alarming ... To See Mr Gandhi, A Seditious Middle Temple Lawyer, Now Posing As A Fakir Of A Type Well-known In The East, Striding Half-naked Up The Steps Of The Vice-regal Palace While He Is Still Organising And Conducting A Campaign Of Civil Disobedience.

Never Give In. Never Give In. Never, Never, Never, Never -- In Nothing, Great Or Small, Large Or Petty -- Never Give In, Except To Convictions Of Honor And Good Sense.

Nothing Is Won Without Enthusiasm.

Nourish Your Hopes, But Do Not Overlook Realities.

In The Course Of My Life, I Have Often Had To Eat My Words, And I Must Confess That I Have Always Found It A Wholesome Diet.

I Am Weary Of A Task Which Is Done And I Hope I Shall Not Shrink When The Aftermath Ends. My Only Wish Is To Live Peacefully Out The Remaining Years - If Years They Be.

Time Passes Swiftly, But Is It Not Joyous To See How Great And Growing Is The Treasure We Have Gathered Together, Amid The Storms And Stresses Of So Many Eventful And To Millions Tragic And Terrible Years?

So Long As I Am Acting From Duty And Conviction, I Am Indifferent To Taunts And Jeers. I Think They Will Probably Do Me More Good Than Harm.

Too Often The Strong, Silent Man Is Silent Only Because He Does Not Know What To Say, And Is Reputed Strong Only Because He Has Remained Silent.

This Revelation Of The Secrets Of Nature, Long Mercifully Withheld From Man, Should Arouse The Most Solemn Reflections In The Mind And Conscience Of Every Human Being Capable Of Comprehension. We Must Indeed Pray That These Awful Agencies Will Be Made To Conduce To Peace Among The Nations, And That Instead Of Wreaking Measureless Havoc Upon The Entire Globe, May Become A Perennial Fountain Of World Prosperity.

Still, It Is The Primary Right Of Men To Die And Kill For The Land They Live In, And To Punish With Exceptional Severity All Members Of Their Own Race Who Have Warmed Their Hands At The Invaders' Hearth.

If You Will Not Fight For Right When You Can Easily Win Without Bloodshed; If You Will Not Fight When Your Victory Will Be Sure And Not Too Costly; You May Come To The Moment When You Will Have To Fight With All Odds Against You And Only A Precarious Chance Of Survival. There May Be Even A Worse Fate, You May Have To Fight When There Is No Hope Of Victory, Because It Is Better To Perish Than To Live As Slaves.

Which Brings Me To My Conclusion Upon Free Will And Predestination, Namely - Let The Reader Mark It - That They Are Identical.

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