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| Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. |
| Attitude |
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| Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham. |
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| Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter. |
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| Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat. |
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| Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death and those who are bored to death |
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| Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. |
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| By being so long in the lowest form I gained an immense advantage over the cleverest boys . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the normal British sentence - which is a noble thing. |
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| By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. |
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| Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful |
| Praise |
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| Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn’t know where he was going, he didn’t know where he was… and he did it all at taxpayers expense. |
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| Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will |
| Civilization; Doing Your Best; Mankind; Peace |
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| Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential |
| Intelligence; Potential |
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| Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. |
| Courage; Enthusiasm |
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| Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend. |
| Courage |
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| Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. |
| Courage |
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| Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. |
| Courage |
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| Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. |
| Courage |
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| Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. |
| Criticism |
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| Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! |
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| Death came very easily to her. She had lived such an innocent and loving life of service to others and held such a simple faith, that she had no fears at all and did not seem to mind very much. |
| Death and dying |
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