"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Churchill, Winston on opportunity
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"There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion."

Churchill, Winston on opinions
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"Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement."

Churchill, Winston on nuclear age
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"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time."

Churchill, Winston on planning
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"There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring."

Churchill, Winston on planning
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"In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times."

Churchill, Winston on politics
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"Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game."

Churchill, Winston on risk
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"No crime is so great as daring to excel."

Churchill, Winston on risk
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"Responsibility is the price of greatness."

Churchill, Winston on responsibility
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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."

Churchill, Winston on quotations
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"Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it."

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"Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party."

Churchill, Winston on politics
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"Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times."

Churchill, Winston on politics
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"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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"The maxim of the British people is Business as usual."

Churchill, Winston on nations
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