"The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult."
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"The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within."
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"Un pesimista ve la dificultad en cada oportunidad; un optimista ve una oportunidad en cada dificultad"
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"...to win by one is enough."
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"No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections."
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"Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture."
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"There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open. There is no room now for the dilettante, the weakling, for the shirker, or the sluggard. From the highest to the humblest tasks, all are of equal honor; all have their part to play."
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"The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man."
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"The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself."
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"One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement."
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"They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last."
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"We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it."
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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."
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"The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
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"Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement."
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"Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down."
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"The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions."
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"Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind."
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"We shape our homes and then our homes shape us."
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"One does not leave a convivial party before closing time."
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