"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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"I am easily satisfied with the very best."

Churchill, Winston on action
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"When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber."

Churchill, Winston on silence
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"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston on change
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"Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all."

Churchill, Winston on vocabulary
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"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."

Churchill, Winston on worry
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"In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might."

Churchill, Winston on adaptability
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"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure."

Churchill, Winston on courage
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"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."

Churchill, Winston on courage
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"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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"It's no use saying, We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."

Churchill, Winston on achievement
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"Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gongthese are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. "

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"Twenty to twenty-five! These are the years! Dont be content with things as they are. Dont take No for an answer. Never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed and won by youth. She has lived and thrived only by repeated subjugations. "

Churchill, Winston on uncategorised
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"I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. "

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""we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give"."

Churchill, Winston on life
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"We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm."

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"I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light."

Newton, Sir Isaac on light   

"If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent."

Newton, Sir Isaac on patience
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"I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

Newton, Sir Isaac on science
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"If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."

Newton, Sir Isaac on thoughts and thinking   

"If I have seen further... it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

Newton, Sir Isaac on vision
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"If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work."

Newton, Sir Isaac on work
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"This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."

Newton, Sir Isaac on creation
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"There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering."

Roosevelt, Theodore on effort
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"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."

Roosevelt, Theodore on labor
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"Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking."

Roosevelt, Theodore on purpose
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"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

Roosevelt, Theodore on risk
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"It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

Roosevelt, Theodore on risk
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"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it."

Roosevelt, Theodore on success
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"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."

Roosevelt, Theodore on success
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"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

Roosevelt, Theodore on work
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"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Roosevelt, Theodore on action
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"Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster."

Roosevelt, Theodore on action
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"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. "

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"Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure. "

Roosevelt, Theodore on uncategorised
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"We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out. "

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