Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation … - Winston Churchill

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I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport.

Winston Churchill

Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it

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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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But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is proper.

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. . . one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.

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I have to take what I say and make it heavy, so every single bar means something. And there's no riddles in my rhymes. Every single word means something.

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My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.

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