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Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.

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Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield.

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I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them what was what; professors who had devoted their lives to mastering and focusing ideas in every branch of learning; who were eager to distribute the treasures they had gathered before they were overtaken by the night. But now I pity undergraduates, when I see what frivolous lives many of them lead in the midst of precious fleeting opportunity. After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play.

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Good and great are seldom in the same man.

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I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.

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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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Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few months. After the first two years it was difficult to believe that they would ever end.

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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

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I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.

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The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

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The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.

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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

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Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.

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To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.

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I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.

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We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?

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Can a nation remain healthy, can all nations draw together in a world whose brightest stars are film stars?

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The only guide to man is his conscience.

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How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.

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