"Nothing should be done for spite's sake."
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"How often in life must one be content with what one can get!"
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"Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give."
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"There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed."
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"We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end."
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"There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into action, and enshrined in immutable laws a million years ago by the white ant."
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"And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning."
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"The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither snow-shoes nor skis - still less skiers. We must do our best. Thus began this ramshackle campaign."
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"Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their character. Reflecting on the outcome of World War I, and an ominous future."
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"If you find something you really love, you will never work again."
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"I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it."
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"I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism."
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"Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problem - will be presented to every generation in different forms."
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"I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away."
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"It happens that once we learn a thing, the motivation to keep it up grows and expands further as well. If you're going through hell, keep going."
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"I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. The Japanese are our allies.... Japan is at the other end of the world. She cannot menace our vital security in any way.... War with Japan is not a possibility which any reasonable government need take into account."
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"Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow."
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"We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past."
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"I myself find waiting more tiring than action."
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"We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigour, can even at this hour save civilization."
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