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Like Other Systems In Decay, The Roman Empire Continued To Function For Several Generations After Its Vitality Was Sapped. For Nearly A Hundred Years Our Island Was One Of The Scenes Of Conflict Between A Dying Civilisation And Lusty, Famishing Barbarism.

-Winston Churchill

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Like Other Systems In Decay, The Roman Empire Continued To Function For Several Generations After Its Vitality Was Sapped. For Nearly A Hundred Years Our Island Was One Of The Scenes Of Conflict Between A Dying Civilisation And Lusty, Famishing Barbarism.

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Science Unfolded Her Treasures And Her Secrets To The Desperate Demands Of Men, And Placed In Their Hands Agencies And Apparatus Almost Decisive In Their Character. Reflecting On The Outcome Of World War I, And An Ominous Future.

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872, Ivar, King Of The Northmen Of All Ireland And Britain , Ended His Life." He Had Conquered Mercia And East Anglia. He Had Captured The Major Stronghold Of The Kingdom Of Strathclyde, Dumbarton. Laden With Loot And Seemingly Invincible, He Settled In Dublin And Died There Peacefully Two Years Later. The Pious Chroniclers Report That He "slept In Christ." Thus It May Be That He Had The Best Of Both Worlds.

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We Are Stripped Bare By The Curse Of Plenty. [referring To The Theory That Over-production Caused The Depression]

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Life Is A Test And This World A Place Of Trial.

You Create Your Own Universe As You Go Along.

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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.

Little Did We Guess That What Has Been Called The Century Of The Common Man Would Witness As Its Outstanding Feature More Common Men Killing Each Other With Greater Facilities Than Any Other Five Centuries Together In The History Of The World.

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There Is No Better Exercise Than To Study And Devour A Picture, And Then, Without Looking At It Again, To Attempt The Next Day To Reproduce It.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt Was Like Opening Your First Bottle Of Champagne; Knowing Him Was Like Drinking It.

The Cultivation Of A Hobby And New Forms Of Interest Is A Policy Of First Importance To A Public Man.

Curse Ruthless Time! Curse Our Mortality. How Cruelly Short Is The Allotted Span For All We Must Cram Into It!

[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.

A Lie Gets Halfway Around The World Before The Truth Has A Chance To Get Its Pants On.

I May Be Drunk, Miss, But In The Morning I Will Be Sober And You Will Still Be Ugly.

I Wonder Whether Any Other Generation Has Seen Such Astounding Revolutions Of Data And Values As Those Through Which We Have Lived. Scarcely Anything Material Or Established Which I Was Brought Up To Believe Was Permanent And Vital, Has Lasted. Everything I Was Sure Or Taught To Be Sure Was Impossible, Has Happened.

The Substitution Of The Internal Combustion Engine For The Horse Marked A Very Gloomy Milestone In The Progress Of Mankind.

[there Are Dangers In] The Disposition To Hunt Down Rich Men As If They Were Noxious Beasts.

If I Was Your Wife Sir, I'd Poison You! Madam, If You Were My Wife, I'd Let You!

We Build Dwellings And Thereafter They Build Us.

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.

When I Find A Ladybug I Ask The Butler To Take It Outside Instead Of Killing It.

Victory Was To Be Bought So Dear As To Be Almost Indistinguishable From Defeat.

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

The Person Of Truth Must Be Covered With Bodyguards Of Lies.

If You Cannot Read All Your Books...fondle Them---peer Into Them, Let Them Fall Open Where They Will, Read From The First Sentence That Arrests The Eye, Set Them Back On The Shelves With Your Own Hands, Arrange Them On Your Own Plan So That You At Least Know Where They Are. Let Them Be Your Friends; Let Them, At Any Rate, Be Your Acquaintances.

The Reason For Having Diplomatic Relations Is Not To Confer A Compliment, But To Secure A Convenience. [on Diplomatic Recognition Of The People's Republic Of China]

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There Is A Forgotten, Nay Almost Forbidden Word, Which Means More To Me Than Any Other. That Word Is England.

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

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Success Is The Ability To Continue To Move Through Total Disaster.

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The Arts Are Essential To Any Complete National Life. The State Owes It To Itself To Sustain And Encourage Them. [...] Ill Fares The Race Which Fails To Salute The Arts With The Reverence And Delight Which Are Their Due.

The Day May Dawn When Fair Play, Love For One's Fellow Men, Respect For Justice And Freedom, Will Enable Tormented Generations To March Forth Serene And Triumphant From The Hideous Epoch In Which We Have To Dwell. Meanwhile, Never Flinch, Never Weary, Never Despair.

Today I May Way Before An Awestruck World; I Am Still Master Of My Fate. I Am Still Captain Of My Soul.

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It Is No Use Doing What You Like; You Have Got To Like What You Do.

Civilisation Will Not Last, Freedom Will Not Survive, Peace Will Not Be Kept, Unless A Very Large Majority Of Mankind Unite Together To Defend Them And Show Themselves Possessed Of A Constabulary Power Before Which Barbaric And Atavistic Forces Will Stand In Awe.

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