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Soviet Union Foreign Policy Is A Puzzle Inside A Riddle Wrapped In An Enigma, And The Key Is Russian Nationalism.
-Winston Churchill
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Soviet Union Foreign Policy

Winston Churchill
Soviet Union Foreign Policy Is A Puzzle Inside A Riddle Wrapped In An Enigma, And The Key Is Russian Nationalism.
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Unless Some Effective Supranational Government Can Be Set Up And Brought Quickly Into Action, The Prospects Of Peace And Human Progress Are Dark And Doubtful.
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Difficulties Mastered Are Opportunities Won.
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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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Before Alamein We Never Had A Victory. After Alamein We Never Had A Defeat.
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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.
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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?
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I Felt As If I Were Walking With Destiny, And That All My Past Life Had Been But A Preparation For This Hour And For This Trial... I Thought I Knew A Good Deal About It All, I Was Sure I Should Not Fail.
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The Future Is Unknowable, But The Past Should Give Us Hope.
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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.
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I'm So Bored With It All.
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Hess Or No Hess, I'm Going To Watch The Marx Brothers.
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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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Nothing Can Be More Abhorrent To Democracy Than To Imprison A Person Or Keep Him In Prison Because He Is Unpopular. This Is Really The Test Of Civilization.
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It Is Not Given To Us To Peer Into The Mysteries Of The Future. Still, I Avow My Hope And Faith, Sure And Inviolate, That In The Days To Come The British And American Peoples Will For Their Own Safety And For The Good Of All Walk Together Side By Side In Majesty, In Justice, And In Peace.
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When You Are On A Great Horse, You Have The Best Seat You Will Ever Have.
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Let Us Set Up A Standard Around Which The Brave And The Loyal Can Rally.
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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.
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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.
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Never Engage In A Battle Of Wits With An Unarmed Man.
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I Have Taken More Out Of Alcohol Than Alcohol Has Taken Out Of Me.
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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.
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Good Night, Then - Sleep To Gather Strength For The Morning. For The Morning Will Come. Brightly Will It Shine On The Brave And True, Kindly On All Who Suffer For The Cause, Glorious Upon The Tombs Of Heroes. Thus Will Shine The Dawn.
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Cannot Possibly Attend First Night, Will Attend Second... If There Is One.
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We Are Happier In Many Ways When We Are Old Than When We Were Young. The Young Sow Wild Oats. The Old Grow Sage.
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When Great Causes Are On The Move In The World, Stirring All Men's Souls, Drawing Them From Their Firesides, Casting Aside Comfort, Wealth And The Pursuit Of Happiness In Response To Impulses At Once Awe-striking And Irresistible, We Learn That We Are Spirits, Not Animals.
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Not To Have An Adequate Air Force In The Present State Of The World Is To Compromise The Foundations Of National Freedom And Independence.
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We Have No Lasting Friends, No Lasting Enemies, Only Lasting Interests.
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We Are Plunged In A Long And Grievous Struggle. But All Will Come Right If We All Work Together To The End.
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Long
Working Together
Churchill: "madam, Would You Sleep With Me For Five Million Pounds?" Socialite: "my Goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I Suppose... We Would Have To Discuss Terms, Of Course... " Churchill: "would You Sleep With Me For Five Pounds?" Socialite: "mr. Churchill, What Kind Of Woman Do You Think I Am?!" Churchill: "madam, We've Already Established That. Now We Are Haggling About The Price
Sleep
Thinking
Pounds
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.
Men
Quality
Deeds
Men Occasionally Stumble Over The Truth, But Most Of Them Pick Themselves Up And Hurry Off As If Nothing Had Happened.
Inspirational
Funny
Life
It Seems To Me That The Moment Has Come When The Question Of Bombing Of German Cities Simply For The Sake Of Increasing The Terror, Though Under Other Pretexts, Should Be Reviewed.
Cities
Sake
Moments
I Only Believe In Statistics That I Doctored Myself
Believe
Statistics
It Is Arguable Whether The Human Race Have Been Gainers By The March Of Science Beyond The Steam Engine. Electricity Opens A Field Of Infinite Conveniences To Ever Greater Numbers, But They May Well Have To Pay Dearly For Them. But Anyhow In My Thought I Stop Short Of The Internal Combustion Engine Which Has Made The World So Much Smaller. Still More Must We Fear The Consequences Of Entrusting A Human Race So Little Different From Their Predecessors Of The So-called Barbarous Ages Such Awful Agencies As The Atomic Bomb. Give Me The Horse.
Horse
War
Science
I Am All For Your Using Machines, But Do Not Let Them Use You.
Machines
Use
We Make Our Buildings And Afterwards They Make Us. They Regulate The Course Of Our Lives.
Building
Courses
Our Lives
The Only Traditions Of The Royal Navy Are Rum, Sodomy And The Lash.
Army
British Navy
Royal
If I Stay On For The Time Being, Bearing The Burden At My Age, It Is Not Because Of Love For Power Or Office. I Have Had An Ample Share Of Both. If I Stay It Is Because I Have A Feeling That I May, Through Things That Have Happened, Have An Influence About What I Care About Above All Else, The Building Of A Sure And Lasting Peace.
Adversity
Office
Feelings
One Would Have Thought That If There Was One Cause In The World Which The Conservative Party Would Have Hastened To Defend, It Would Be The Cause Of The British Empire In India ... Our Fight Is Hard. It Will Also Be Long ... But Win Or Lose, We Must Do Our Duty. If The British People Are To Lose Their Indian Empire, They Shall Do So With Their Eyes Open.
Party
Eye
Fighting
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.
Country
Fire
Political
I Have Consistently Urged My Friends To Abstain From Reading It.
Reading
Leisure
My Friends
Canada Is The Linchpin Of The English-speaking World. Canada, With Those Relations Of Friendly, Affectionate Intimacy With The United States On The One Hand And With Her Unswerving Fidelity To The British Commonwealth And The Motherland On The Other, Is The Link Which Joins Together These Great Branches Of The Human Family, A Link Which, Spanning The Oceans, Brings The Continents Into Their True Relation And Will Prevent In Future Generations Any Growth Of Division Between The Proud And The Happy Nations Of Europe And The Great Countries Which Have Come Into Existence In The New World.
Country
Ocean
Hands
Well, Dinner Would Have Been Splendid... If The Wine Had Been As Cold As The Soup, The Beef As Rare As The Service, The Brandy As Old As The Fish, And The Maid As Willing As The Duchess.
Wine
Beef
Maids
Socialism Is Inseparably Interwoven With Totalitarianism And The Object Worship Of The State.
Politics
Worship
Socialism
You Must Sleep Sometime Between Lunch And Dinner, And No Halfway Measures. Take Off Your Clothes And Get Into Bed. That's What I Always Do.
Sleep
Lunch
Clothes
Unless We Establish Some Form Of World Government, It Will Not Be Possible For Us To Avert A World War Iii In The Future.
War
World Government
Law
One Is Quite Astonished To Find How Many Things There Are In The Landscape, And In Every Object In It, One Never Noticed Before. And This Is A Tremendous New Pleasure And Interest Which Invests Every Walk Or Drive With An Added Object. So Many Colours On The Hillside, Each Different In Shadow And In Sunlight; Such Brilliant Reflections In The Pool, Each A Key Lower Than What They Repeat; Such Lovely Lights Gilding Or Silvering Surface Or Outline, All Tinted Exquisitely With Pale Colour, Rose, Orange, Green Or Violet.
Reflection
Orange
Keys
Never Stand So High Upon A Principle That You Cannot Lower It To Suit The Circumstances.
Principles
Suits
Circumstances
What Kind Of People Do They [the Japanese] Think We Are?
Kindness
Thinking
People
[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.
Dinner
Leisure
Topics
I Want No Criticism Of America At My Table. The Americans Criticize Themselves More Than Enough.
America
Criticism
Tables
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.
Done
Want
Action
It Is One Thing To See The Forward Path And Another To Be Able To Take It. But It Is Better To Have An Ambitious Plan Than None At All.
Ambition
Ambitious
Able
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.
Children
Men
Long
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.
People
Fit
Ministers
I Was Shown A Picture By Cézanne Of A Blank Wall Of A House, Which He Had Made Instinct With The Most Delicate Lights And Colours.
Wall
Light
House
I'd Rather Be Right Than Consistent.
Consistent
I Did Not Like The Man [niels Bohr] When You Showed Him To Me, With His Hair All Overhis Head.
Men
Hair
He Man
[the Balkans] Produce More History Than They Can Consume.
Produce
Balkans
Art Is To Beauty What Honor Is To Honesty.
Art
Honesty
Honor
Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

A quote is a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. It can be a direct replication of words spoken or written by another individual, often used to support arguments, provide evidence, or convey profound insights.


2. The Importance of Quotes

2.1. Enhancing Credibility

Incorporating quotes from authoritative sources can bolster the credibility of your work. By referencing experts or primary sources, you demonstrate thorough research and a solid foundation for your arguments.


2.2. Providing Evidence

Quotes serve as concrete evidence to support claims. In academic and professional writing, they validate points made, offering readers a basis to trust the information presented.


2.3. Conveying Emotions and Perspectives

Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.


3. Types of Quotes

3.1. Direct Quotes

Direct quotes involve copying the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks. They are used when the original wording is significant or particularly well-expressed.


3.2. Indirect Quotes (Paraphrasing)

Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.


3.3. Block Quotes

Block quotes are lengthy direct quotations, formatted as a separate block of text. They are typically used for quotes exceeding a certain length, varying by citation style. For instance, in APA style, quotes longer than 40 words are formatted as block quotes.



4. Proper Usage of Quotes


4.1. Contextual Relevance

Ensure that the quote you choose is relevant to the topic and adds value to your content. Avoid inserting quotes solely for decorative purposes.


4.2. Integration into Your Writing

Seamlessly integrate quotes into your writing. Introduce them appropriately and follow up with analysis or commentary to connect them to your main points.


4.3. Attribution and Citation

Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).


5. Common Mistakes to Avoid


5.1. Overusing Quotes

Relying too heavily on quotes can overshadow your voice. Use them sparingly to support your arguments, not replace them.


5.2. Lack of Analysis

Presenting a quote without analysis or explanation can leave readers questioning its relevance. Always follow up with your interpretation or discussion.


5.3. Misquoting or Taking Out of Context

Ensure that quotes are accurate and not taken out of context, as this can mislead readers and undermine your credibility.



6. Quotes in Different Contexts


6.1. Academic Writing

In academic writing, quotes are used to support arguments, provide evidence, and engage with existing literature. Proper citation is crucial to avoid plagiarism.


6.2. Journalism

Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.


6.3. Literature and Creative Writing

In literature, quotes can be used to convey character voices, themes, and stylistic elements. They enrich narratives and provide depth to storytelling.



7. Punctuation and Formatting


Understanding the correct punctuation and formatting of quotes is essential:


Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.


Punctuation Placement: In American English, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks, while colons and semicolons are placed outside.


Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.



8. Ethical Considerations


Ethical use of quotes involves accurate representation, proper attribution, and respect for intellectual property. Misuse can lead to plagiarism, which carries serious academic and professional consequences.

9. Tools for Managing Quotes


Utilize tools like citation generators and plagiarism checkers to manage quotes effectively. These tools help ensure proper formatting and originality in your writing.



Conclusion


Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.


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