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The Facilities For Advanced Education Must Be Evened Out And Multiplied. No One Who Can Take Advantage Of A Higher Education Should Be Denied This Chance. You Cannot Conduct A Modern Community Except With An Adequate Supply Of Persons Upon Whose Education, Whether Humane, Technical, Or Scientific, Much Time And Money Have Been Spent.

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The Facilities For Advanced

Winston Churchill

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The Facilities For Advanced Education Must Be Evened Out And Multiplied. No One Who Can Take Advantage Of A Higher Education Should Be Denied This Chance. You Cannot Conduct A Modern Community Except With An Adequate Supply Of Persons Upon Whose Education, Whether Humane, Technical, Or Scientific, Much Time And Money Have Been Spent.

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It Is Of No Account; After All, The Old Bird Does Not Fly Far From His Nest.

Socialism Would Gather All Power To The Supreme Party And Party Leaders, Rising Like Stately Pinnacles Above Their Vast Bureaucracies Of Civil Servants No Longer Servants, No Longer Civil.

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I Am Strongly In Favour Of Using Poisoned Gas Against Uncivilised Tribes.

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It Has Been Said That Democracy Is The Worst Form Of Government Except All The Others That Have Been Tried.

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Before You Can Inspire With Emotion, You Must Be Swamped With It Yourself. Before You Can Move Their Tears, Your Own Must Flow. To Convince Them, You Must Yourself, Believe.

The Press Is Easier To Strangle Than To Look In The Eyes.

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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.

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Just As The Sentence Contains One Idea In All Its Fullness, So The Paragraph Should Embrace A Distinct Episode; And As Sentences Should Follow One Another In Harmonious Sequence, So Paragraphs Must Fit Into Another Like The Automatic Couplings Of Railway Carriages.

We Are All Worms. But I Believe That I Am A Glow-worm.

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