"You gotta have some balls to be a female PM in England"
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""I hope, sir, that I will shoot your picture on your hundredth birthday." I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit and healthy."
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"America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives."
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"Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension."
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"No one should waste a day."
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"The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow."
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"It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian."
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"With opportunity comes responsibility."
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"The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship."
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"Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't."
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"It is not always possible to have everything go as one likes. In working with allies, it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own"
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"There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed."
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"[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is."
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"Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited by immense numbers of ignorant people largely possessed of lethal weapons and in a state of extreme disorder. Also Russia is a long way off."
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"Leadership is the intelligent use of power."
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"Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician."
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"If you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them."
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"Science has given to this generation the means of unlimited disaster or of unlimited progress. There will remain the greater task of directing knowledge lastingly towards the purpose of peace and human good."
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"There is a treasure in the heart of every man if you can only find it"
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"The reservist is twice the citizen."
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