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"I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it."

Churchill, Winston on expression
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Churchill, Winston on fanatics and fanaticism
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"The price of greatness is responsibility."

Churchill, Winston on greatness
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"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time."

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

Churchill, Winston on alcohol and alcoholism
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"No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity."

Churchill, Winston on agreement
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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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"It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter"

Churchill, Winston on fear
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"The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues."

Lytton, Lady Constance on virtue    Share

"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [About Russia]"

Churchill, Winston on nations
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"Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity."

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel on love
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"Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent."

Churchill, Winston on character
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"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

Churchill, Winston on change
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"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

Churchill, Winston on capitalism
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"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon."

Churchill, Winston on business
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"I never worry about action, but only inaction."

Churchill, Winston on action
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"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

Churchill, Winston on success
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"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack."

Churchill, Winston on speakers and speaking
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"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."

Churchill, Winston on solitude
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"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love."

Hazlitt, William on love
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"Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back."

Rubinstein, Arthur on love
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals."

Denham, Sir John on ambition
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"Friendship is love with understanding."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should."

Rostand, Jean on ideas
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"Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work"

Unknown, Source on work
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"Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives."

Hay, Louise L. on love
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"Women make love for love, men make love for lust."

Harge, Derrick on women
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"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore on love
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"Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge."

Churchill, Winston on simplicity
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"Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed."

Churchill, Winston on security
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"I am easily satisfied with the very best."

Churchill, Winston on action
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"I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks."

Churchill, Winston on planning
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"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves."

Churchill, Winston on perseverance
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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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"These are not dark days: these are great days -- the greatest days our country has ever lived."

Churchill, Winston on optimism
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"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."

Churchill, Winston on optimism
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