"Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about."
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"Eating words has never given me indigestion."
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"There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour."
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"I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful."
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"One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps."
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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."
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"The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary."
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"There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials."
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"Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential."
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"We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage."
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"We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes."
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"I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley."
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"Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game."
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"These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived."
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"I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind."
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"'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again."
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"When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!"
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"It is not given to princes, statesmen and captains to pierce the mysteries of the future, and even the most penetrating gaze reaches only conclusions which, however seemingly vindicated at a given moment, are inexorably effaced by time."
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"There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right."
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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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