"Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful."
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"No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye."
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"Don't deliver an essay with so many points. No one can absorb it. Just say one thing... Of course, you can say the point in many different ways over and over again with different illustrations."
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"What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all."
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"Never pass up the chance to sit down or go to the bathroom."
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"At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat."
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"Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits"
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"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one."
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"In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered."
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"What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?"
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"Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance."
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"A polo handicap is a persons ticket to the world."
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"Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too."
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"No one ever came to grief-except honorable grief-through riding horses. No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing horses, but never through riding them; unless of course they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die."
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"The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it."
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"The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities."
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"If you are going through hell just keep going"
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"I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go."
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"At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity."
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"[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool."
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