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The only thing wrong with Christianity is the lack of suffering.

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

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If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.

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Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.

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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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Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

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The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.

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The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is a real feudal fortress....Eve ry family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud....Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid.

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There comes a precious moment in all of our lives when we are tapped on the shoulder and offered the opportunity to do something very special that is unique to us and our abilities, what a tragedy it would be if we are not ready or willing.

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There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

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Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.

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872, Ivar, King of the Northmen of all Ireland and Britain , ended his life." He had conquered Mercia and East Anglia. He had captured the major stronghold of the kingdom of Strathclyde, Dumbarton. Laden with loot and seemingly invincible, he settled in Dublin and died there peacefully two years later. The pious chroniclers report that he "slept in Christ." Thus it may be that he had the best of both worlds.

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He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen who died side by side with ours and carrying out their tasks to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his.

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I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.

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More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them.

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It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done.

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If you travel the earth, you will find it is largely divided into two classes of people-people who say 'I wonder why such and such is not done" and people who say "Now who is going to prevent me from doing that thing?"

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Perfectionism spells paralysis.

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They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.

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The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.

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