Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future. . . But I should … - Winston Churchill

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I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

Winston Churchill

Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future. . . But I should be failing in my duty if, on the other side, I were not to convey the true impression, that this great nation is getting into its war stride.

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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

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It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.

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When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

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Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

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If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

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I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

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William Safire

Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the reader wants to take the message directly on the chin.

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Danica McKellar

The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the. 9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.

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L.A. Weatherly

After a long time, I cleared my throat. “So anyway, when we get to Nevada. . . I think we should rethink your dad’s rule. ” Alex glanced down at me and smiled – the first real smile I’d seen on his face in a long time. “You know what? It’s already been rethought and completely ditched,” he said. And he wrapped his arms around me and we stood looking up at the mountains, with the rising rays of the sun lighting them from the east.

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

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