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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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Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

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A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.

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I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

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When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

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I'd rather be right than consistent.

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The head cannot take in more than the seat can endure.

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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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Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or events.

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Danger, if met head on, can be nearly halved

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Never give in, never! Be it concerning large things or small things, never, never, never!

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There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange

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The only guide to man is his conscience.

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...to win by one is enough.

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Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.

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It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse.

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To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.

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In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.

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First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were unable to quench the spirit of the Polish nation. The heroic defense of Warsaw shows that the soul of Poland is indestructible, and that she will rise again like a rock which may for a spell be submerged by a tidal wave but which remains a rock.

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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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