"...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come."
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"For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself."
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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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"it so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a desire to bear themselves well and to leave life's stage with dignity conquers all other sensations."
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"One evening at Chequers the film was Oliver Twist. Rufus, as usual, had the best seat in the house, on his master's lap. At the point when Bill Sikes was about to drown his dog to put the police off his track, Churchill covered Rufus's eyes with his hand. He said, "Don't look now, dear. I'll tell you about it afterwards.""
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"His name is Rufus II-but the II is silent."
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"Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally."
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"Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses."
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"Watch your habits, they determine your character."
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"I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom."
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"I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it."
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"In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he made one of the outstanding blunders of history, and the results so far realized constitute an event of cardinal importance in the final decision of the war."
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"It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events."
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"Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home"
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"There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided."
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"One time he was asked if he believed in an afterlife. After a moment's hesitation he said no, that he thought there was only "some kind of velvety cool blackness," adding then: "Of course, I admit I may be wrong. It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest.""
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"The press is easier to strangle than to look in the eyes."
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"Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition of the native resource. The Geological Survey had identified the inflammable oil shale in reports since at least 1888.]"
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"Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box."
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"I was shown a picture by Cézanne of a blank wall of a house, which he had made instinct with the most delicate lights and colours."
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