"I have never developed indigestion from eating my words."

Churchill, Winston on words
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"Eating words has never given me indigestion."

Churchill, Winston on words
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"There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies."

Churchill, Winston on children
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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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"The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!"

Churchill, Winston on communism and socialism
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"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others."

Churchill, Winston on courage
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"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

Churchill, Winston on virtue
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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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"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."

Churchill, Winston on vision
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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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"My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me."

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

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

Churchill, Winston on silence
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"In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice."

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

Churchill, Winston on difficulties
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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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"No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again."

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

Churchill, Winston on leadership
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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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"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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"Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

Churchill, Winston on learning
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"Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal."

Churchill, Winston on animals
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"Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them."

Christie, Agatha on habit
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"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity."

Acton, Lord on opinions
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"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."

Asimov, Isaac on self-improvement
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"I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander."

Asimov, Isaac on books - reading
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"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."

Calvino, Italo on books - classics   

"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."

Davies, Robertson on books - classics
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"Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends."

Adams, Dawn on books - reading
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"Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors."

Addison, Joseph on books - reading
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"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."

Adler, Mortimer J. on books - reading
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"Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life."

Adler, Mortimer J. on books - reading
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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on books - reading
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"Beware of the person of one book."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on books - reading
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"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"

Beecher, Henry Ward on books - reading
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