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Out Of Intense Complexities Intense Simplicities Emerge. Broadly Speaking, The Short Words Are The Best, And The Old Words When Short Are Best Of All.

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Out Of Intense Complexities Intense Simplicities Emerge. Broadly Speaking, The Short Words Are The Best, And The Old Words When Short Are Best Of All.

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

[magna Carta Provided] "a System Of Checks And Balances Which Would Accord The Monarchy Its Necessary Strength, But Would Prevent Its Perversion By A Tyrant Or A Fool.

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I Am Your Servant. You Have The Right To Dismiss Me When You Please. What You Have No Right To Do Is Ask Me To Bear Responsibility Without The Power Of Action.

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I Always Like To Learn, But I Don't Always Like To Be Taught.

I Am Convinced That There Is No Smarter, Handier, Or More Adaptable Body Of Troops In The World.

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If A Woman Has "it," She Doesn't Need Anything Else; But If She Doesn't Have "it," It Doesn't Matter What Else She Has.

I Never Slept As Soundly As The Night Following Pearl Harbor. For I Knew That The American Race Would Now Be Entering The War And It Would Never Be The Same.

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Good And Great Are Seldom In The Same Man.

You Must Put Your Head Into The Lion's Mouth If The Performance Is To Be A Success.

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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.

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Dead Birds Don't Fall Out Of Their Nests.

Never Pass Up The Chance To Sit Down Or Go To The Bathroom.

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

It Is Not Given To Princes, Statesmen And Captains To Pierce The Mysteries Of The Future, And Even The Most Penetrating Gaze Reaches Only Conclusions Which, However Seemingly Vindicated At A Given Moment, Are Inexorably Effaced By Time.

Science Burrows Its Insulted Head In The Filth Of Slaughterous Inventions.

Fancy Cutting Down All Those Beautiful Trees...to Make Pulp For Those Bloody Newspapers, And Calling It Civilisation.

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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Always Remember, A Cat Looks Down On Man, A Dog Looks Up To Man, But A Pig Will Look Man Right In The Eye And See His Equal.

Those Good At War Aren't Good At Peace, And Those Good At Peace Aren't Good At War.

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I Have Always Had A Curious Nature; I Enjoy Learning, But I Dislike Being Taught.

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

At One Side Of The Palette There Is White, At The Other Black; And Neither Is Ever Used Neat.

Never Does A Man Portray His Character More Vividly Than When Proclaiming The Character Of Another.

A Day Away From Chartwell Is A Day Wasted.

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What Is Our Policy? ... To Wage War Against A Monstrous Tyranny, Never Surpassed In The Dark, Lamentable Catalogue Of Human Crime.

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Really I Feel Less Keen About The Army Every Day. I Think The Church Would Suit Me Better.

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Are You Insinuating That I Am A Purveyor Of Terminological Inexactitudes?

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

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Now This Is Not The End. It Is Not Even The Beginning Of The End. But It Is, Perhaps, The End Of The Beginning.

The Question Which We Must Ask Ourselves Is Not Whether We Like Or Do Not Like What Is Going On, But What We Are Going To Do About It.

I Do Not Agree That The Dog In A Manger Has The Final Right To The Manger Even Though He May Have Lain There For A Very Long Time. I Do Not Admit That Right. I Do Not Admit For Instance, That A Great Wrong Has Been Done To The Red Indians Of America Or The Black People Of Australia. I Do Not Admit That A Wrong Has Been Done To These People By The Fact That A Stronger Race, A Higher-grade Race, A More Worldly Wise Race To Put It That Way, Has Come In And Taken Their Place.

Painting Is A Companion With Whom One May Walk A Great Part Of Life's Journey.

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.

Praise The Humanities, My Boy. That'll Make Them Think You're Broadminded!

It Is All Right To Rat, But You Can't Re-rat.

If You Want A Good Argument Against Democracy, Spend Five Minutes With A Voter.

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

Without Victory There Is No Survival!

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Attitude Is A Little Thing That Makes A Big Difference.

I Have Always Said That If Great Britain Were Defeated In War I Hoped We Should Find A Hitler To Lead Us Back To Our Rightful Position Among The Nations. I Am Sorry, However, That He Has Not Been Mellowed By The Great Success That Has Attended Him. The Whole World Would Rejoice To See The Hitler Of Peace And Tolerance, And Nothing Would Adorn His Name In World History So Much As Acts Of Magnanimity And Of Mercy And Of Pity To The Forlorn And Friendless, To The Weak And Poor.... Let This Great Man Search His Own Heart And Conscience Before He Accuses Anyone Of Being A Warmonger.

We Are Stripped Bare By The Curse Of Plenty.

No Folly Is More Costly Than The Folly Of Intolerant Idealism.

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

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.

I Know Of No Case Where A Man Added To His Dignity By Standing On It.

Nourish Your Hopes, But Do Not Overlook Realities.

Men Often Stumble Onto The Truth But Then Quickly Dust Themselves Off And Hurry Away.

There Is No Working Middle Course In Wartime.

A Little Mouse Of Thought Appears In The Room, And Even The Mightiest Potentates Are Thrown Into Panic. They Make Frantic Efforts To Bar Our Thoughts And Words; They Are Afraid Of The Workings Of The Human Mind.

This Fulfils My Ambition. I Still Have My Father's Robe As Chancellor. I Shall Be Proud To Serve You In This Splendid Office.

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.

Beware Of Driving Men To Desperation. Even A Cornered Rat Is Dangerous.

We Shall Not Fail Or Falter; We Shall Not Weaken Or Tire. Neither The Sudden Shock Of Battle, Nor The Long-drawn Trials Of Vigilance And Exertion Will Wear Us Down. Give Us The Tools And We Will Finish The Job.

If Europe Were Once United In The Sharing Of Its Common Inheritance There Would Be No Limit To The Happiness, The Prosperity, And The Glory Which Its Three Or Four Million People Would Enjoy.

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.

We Shape Our Homes And Then Our Homes Shape Us.

Interior Design

Only Changes In Mindsets Can Extend The Frontiers Of The Possible.

If Two People Agree On Everything, One Of Them Is Unnecessary.

It Is Hard, If Not Impossible, To Snub A Beautiful Woman - They Remain Beautiful And The Snub Recoils.

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.

Don't Deliver An Essay With So Many Points. No One Can Absorb It. Just Say One Thing... Of Course, You Can Say The Point In Many Different Ways Over And Over Again With Different Illustrations.

We Must Never Cease To Proclaim In Fearless Tones The Great Principles Of Freedom And The Rights Of Man Which Are The Joint Inheritance Of The English-speaking World And Which Through Magna Carta, The Bill Of Rights, The Habeas Corpus, Trial By Jury, And The English Common Law Find Their Most Famous Expression In The American Declaration Of Independence.

Play The Game For More Than You Can Afford To Lose... Only Then Will You Learn The Game.

There Are Two Kinds Of Success-initial And Ultimate.

If You Destroy A Free Market You Create A Black Market.

Neville Chamberlain Looked At Foreign Affairs Through The Wrong End Of A Municipal Drainpipe.

We Are All Worms. However, I Like To Think I'm A Glow Worm

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.

Cannot Possibly Attend First Night, Will Attend Second... If There Is One.

The Stations Of Uncensored Expression Are Closing Down; The Lights Are Going Out; But There Is Still Time For Those To Whom Freedom And Parliamentary Government Mean Something, To Consult Together. Let Me, Then, Speak In Truth And Earnestness While Time Remains.

I Have Nothing To Offer But Blood, Toil, Tears And Sweat.

The One Who Cannot See That On Earth A Big Endeavor Is Taking Place, An Important Plan, On Which Realization We Are Allowed To Collaborate As Faithful Servants, Certainly Has To Be Blind.

Faithful Servants

Never Give Up On Something That You Can't Go A Day Without Thinking About.

There Comes A Precious Moment In All Of Our Lives When We Are Tapped On The Shoulder And Offered The Opportunity To Do Something Very Special That Is Unique To Us And Our Abilities, What A Tragedy It Would Be If We Are Not Ready Or Willing.

You See These Dictators On Their Pedestals, Surrounded By The Bayonets Of Their Soldiers And The Truncheons Of Their Police ... Yet In Their Hearts There Is Unspoken Fear. They Are Afraid Of Words And Thoughts: Words Spoken Abroad, Thoughts Stirring At Home -- All The More Powerful Because Forbidden -- Terrify Them. A Little Mouse Of Thought Appears In The Room, And Even The Mightiest Potentates Are Thrown Into Panic.

There Is Nothing Government Can Give You That It Hasn't Taken From You In The First Place.

There Is Only One Duty, Only One Safe Course, And That Is To Try To Be Right.

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