"Science should be on tap, not on top."
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"When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking."
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"Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm."
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"I'd prefer to be right than consistent."
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"There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety."
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"I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was the one described as ‘The Boneless Wonder’. My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralizing and revolting for my youthful eye and I have waited fifty years, to see The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench."
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"You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck."
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"If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions."
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"They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall."
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"Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius."
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"It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all."
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"Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments."
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"So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm."
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"The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending."
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"It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism."
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"I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail."
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"Do what you like, but like what you do."
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"We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days."
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"Doubts could be swept away only by deeds."
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"Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!"
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