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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

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Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.

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There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.

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Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen; Secrets of state no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show; Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master wire.

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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

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The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

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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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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

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How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

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We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

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Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

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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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The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.

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The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'

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Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

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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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The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth serene and triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair.

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There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it.

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