"Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."

Lewis, C. S. on courage   

"No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again."

Churchill, Winston on expression
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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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"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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"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."

Churchill, Winston on grammar
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"If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another"

Churchill, Winston on humankind
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"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism."

Churchill, Winston on ideals and idealism
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"Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill."

Churchill, Winston on intentions
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"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."

Churchill, Winston on life
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"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

Churchill, Winston on difficulties
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"It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

Churchill, Winston on democracy
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"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."

Howells, William Dean on tragedies   

"In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on."

Pythagoras on leisure
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"I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect."

Havel, Vaclav on theater   

"Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes."

Brecht, Bertolt on heroes and heroism   

"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."

Dylan, Bob on heroes and heroism
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"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on heroes and heroism
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"Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one."

Gracian, Baltasar on heroes and heroism
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"And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?"

Macaulay, Thomas B. on heroes and heroism   

"The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult."

Churchill, Winston on defeat
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"The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind."

Churchill, Winston on mind
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"There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided."

Churchill, Winston on nationalities and nationalism
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"Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old."

Churchill, Winston on service   

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

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

Churchill, Winston on success
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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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"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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"I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns."

Churchill, Winston on color   

"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure."

Churchill, Winston on courage
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"I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."

Churchill, Winston on death
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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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"The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age."

Churchill, Winston on science
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"If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future."

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

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

Churchill, Winston on optimism
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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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"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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