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Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you r...
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I went to school with butterflies of fear every day for years - from primary school onwards - not ju...
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It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, a...
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When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, becau...
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Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened i...
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Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While r...
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Carbon dioxide is unusual because it doesn't go through the usual three phases of matter, from s...
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Well I think fundamentally, what I think surprises me is the creationist movement, and the notion th...
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Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for... less good. For example, if y...
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Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing ...
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We live longer and healthier lives than ever before. Animal research has improved the treatment of i...
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That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Angl...
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Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much ...
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I did not study science at school until I was 13, when I was totally turned on by a seemingly dreary...
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By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.
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Following 25 children for the TV series 'Child of Our Time' has been extraordinary. The BBC&...
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Much as I like and admire Richard Dawkins, I do think that to call a book 'The God Delusion'...
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Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serio...
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I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I rep...
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In prehistoric times, Homo sapiens was deeply endangered. Early humans were less fleet of foot, with...
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Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought ea...
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The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is some...
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Both in Britain and America, huge publicity has been given to stem cells, particularly embryonic ste...
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I've been all over the world on my own because, as a scientist, you travel a great deal if your ...
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While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may...
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Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, f...
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I used to work for the World Health Organisation in poor countries all over the world - Bangladesh, ...
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I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserabl...
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About 3 million IVF babies have been born since Louise Brown's birth in 1978. Bizarrely, when th...
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Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic ...
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Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.
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It's extraordinary to think that if you walked into a room and said you had never heard of Hamle...
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I don't think you can impose limits on science because the very nature of homo sapiens is that h...
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I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep...
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Neuroscience is now a very important research area in biology. We are now understanding a lot more a...
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It's very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn't devel...
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We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship t...
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I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they real...
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I actually don't mind whether people can choose the sex of the baby - in fact humans have been t...
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I was born with my moustache and, no, I've never been tempted to shave it off. I don't spend...
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if not...
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We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing ...
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When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have...
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Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
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It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand befo...
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Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
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In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
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When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
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No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
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Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the pat...
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I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I s...
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For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to histor...
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The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
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To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own coun...
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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a tim...
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What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cea...
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A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
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War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep...
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I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
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He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
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History is written by the victors.
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We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket...
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If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.
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War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
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Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
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It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
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'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
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The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad t...
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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
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No crime is so great as daring to excel.
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Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
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Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thi...
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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
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I never worry about action, but only inaction.
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I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
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We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
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There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
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Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do...
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This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
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My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alco...
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
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Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarante...
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I am easily satisfied with the very best.
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Never, never, never give up.
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Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
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We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
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Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be;...
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialis...
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I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuin...
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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground...
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The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there ...
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Success is in the details.
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For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
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Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothin...
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if not...
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if ...
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Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.
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The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not...
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No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
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Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like dri...
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MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of though...
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My education was interrupted only by my schooling
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The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously.
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I wanted to make a clever chemistry joke, but the best ones argon.
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He who laughs last didn't get it.
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You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
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Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
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In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
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In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity
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I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is anot...
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Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or pett...
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.
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A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smi...
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Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large ma...
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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been...
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
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Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
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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 ...
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I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another ma...
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When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says somethi...
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Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful
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Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning
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They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up th...
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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
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The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.
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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
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Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungr...
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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved ...
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The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
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If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have ...
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Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, b...
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For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else
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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every dif...
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When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed ...
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A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
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When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
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Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistr...
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Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be;...
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The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket...
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Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.
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'I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using [it] ...
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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.
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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter.
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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground
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Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.
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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
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I am always ready to learn although I do not always like to be taught.
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A joke is a very serious thing
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The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not ...
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The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own coun...
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There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most ...
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It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the...
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Never, never, never, never give up.
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There are a terrible lot of lies going round the world, and the worst of it is that they're true.
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. -Win...
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The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
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It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the hum...
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Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
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The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible t...
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent v...
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there ...
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
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In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
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Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in...
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I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
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We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
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Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow th...
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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every diff...
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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every diffi...
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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit...
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Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.
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I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
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Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
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Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next...
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A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, ...
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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
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True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting informat...
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It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.

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