The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned … - Winston Churchill

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One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.

Winston Churchill

The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history.

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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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May the time not be far off when all other European nations will come to the realisation that the primary necessity is putting an end to the quarrels and strife of centuries and of building up of a finer community of all peoples is: The recognition of a higher common duty arising out of common rights?

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Terre Thaemlitz

It seems evident that the more profound, helpful, and meaningful way to protect people is to dismantle the morality code, and grant people the freedom to openly organize without legal risks - rather than attempting to legally regulate everything, which will always enact social exclusions at some level.

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Michael Lindsay-Hogg

One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.

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Every guy looks in his pocket and then votes.

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Being a Boy Scout saved my life. I was a bookish, introverted kid, shy and withdrawn, unhappy and easily bullied. I was also gay, although I didn't know it yet. I should've been miserable. But being a scout got me out of myself and into the world.

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