"The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS."
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"Writing a book is an adventure."
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"And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred."
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"The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future."
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"It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift."
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"In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain."
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"Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power."
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"I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go."
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"I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters."
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"I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas."
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"It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds."
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"We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two."
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"Oh, what is the matter with poor Puggy-Wug? Pet him and kiss him and give him a hug. Run and fetch him a suitable drug. Wrap him up tenderly all in a rug. That is the way to cure Puggy-Wug."
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"Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?"
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"It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word."
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"These cruel, wanton, indiscriminate bombings of London are, of course, a part of Hitler's invasion plans. He hopes, by killing large numbers of civilians, and women and children, that he will terrorise and cow the people of this mighty imperial city ... Little does he know the spirit of the British nation, or the tough fibre of the Londoners."
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"[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist."
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"I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop."
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"Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government."
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"It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed."
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