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A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

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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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Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in 'What made you pick this book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?'

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Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people, our Empire, and indeed the whole English-speaking world are passing through a dark and deadly valley.

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Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

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For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next 25 years, I realized that order is freedom.

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Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.

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One time he was asked if he believed in an afterlife. After a moment's hesitation he said no, that he thought there was only "some kind of velvety cool blackness," adding then: "Of course, I admit I may be wrong. It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest."

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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

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I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.

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I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.

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I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this; like great chessplayers who play sixteen games at once blindfold and die quite soon of epilepsy. Serve them right! I hope the Mathematicians, however, are well rewarded. I promise never to blackleg their profession nor take the bread out of their mouths.

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I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

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You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.

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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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And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.

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Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.

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Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

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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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Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die.

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