"Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen."

Churchill, Winston on politics
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"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."

Churchill, Winston on wordiness
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"Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public."

Churchill, Winston on writers and writing
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"The English never draw a line without blurring it."

Churchill, Winston on compromise   

"Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job."

Churchill, Winston on courage   

"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."

Churchill, Winston on courage
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"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."

Churchill, Winston on criticism   

"Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"

Churchill, Winston on anger
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"Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result."

Churchill, Winston on anger
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"Never, never, never, never give up."

Churchill, Winston on perseverance
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"The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash. "

Churchill, Winston on army and navy
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"There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true."

Churchill, Winston on lies and lying
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"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on greatness
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"The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go."

Churchill, Winston on dogs
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"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information."

Churchill, Winston on genius
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"I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk."

Churchill, Winston on alcohol and alcoholism
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"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."

Churchill, Winston on alcohol and alcoholism
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"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."

Churchill, Winston on god
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"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose."

Churchill, Winston on golf
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"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

Churchill, Winston on heroes and heroism
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"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour."

Churchill, Winston on heroes and heroism
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"For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself."

Churchill, Winston on history and historians
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"It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right."

Churchill, Winston on honesty
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"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on."

Churchill, Winston on humankind
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"I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar."

Churchill, Winston on leadership
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"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."

Churchill, Winston on perseverance
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"When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius."

Crashaw, William on genius   

"There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed."

Pound, Ezra on death
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"Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names."

Proverb on death
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"I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life."

Renan, Ernest on death
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"The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying."

Richter, Jean Paul on death
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"Who is mightier than death? Those who can smile when death threatens."

Ruckett on death
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"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on genius
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"Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience."

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc on genius
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"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains."

Carlyle, Thomas on genius
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"Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple."

Ceran, C. W. on genius
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"The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos."

Child, Lydia M. on genius   

"Genius is independent of situation."

Churchill, Charles on genius   

"The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope."

Carlyle, Thomas on despair
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"The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough."

Carlyle, Thomas on difficulties
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