Winston Churchill  - Quotes

 Never give up. Never, never, never give up. 

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Alberto Manguel  - Quotes

 I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books. 

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Margaret Weis  - Quotes

 paithin- ... he is orn! mother peytin's son, come to lead us to safety! 

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Herman Melville  - Quotes

 You might almost say, that this strange uncompromisedness in him involved a sort of unintelegence; for in his numerous trades, he did not seem to work so much by reason or instinct, or simply because he had been tuitored into it, or by any intermixture of all of these , even or uneven; but merely by a kind of deaf and dumb , sponteneous literal process. 

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Winston Churchill  - Quotes

 The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. 

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Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 In Sarajevo in 1992, while being shown around the starved, bombarded city by the incomparable John Burns, I experienced four near misses in all, three of them in the course of one day. I certainly thought that the Bosnian cause was worth fighting for and worth defending, but I could not take myself seriously enough to imagine that my own demise would have forwarded the cause. (I also discovered that a famous jaunty Churchillism had its limits: the old war-lover wrote in one of his more youthful reminiscences that there is nothing so exhilarating as being shot at without result. In my case, the experience of a whirring, whizzing horror just missing my ear was indeed briefly exciting, but on reflection made me want above all to get to the airport. Catching the plane out with a whole skin is the best part by far.) Or suppose I had been hit by that mortar that burst with an awful shriek so near to me, and turned into a Catherine wheel of body-parts and (even worse) body-ingredients? Once again, I was moved above all not by the thought that my death would 'count,' but that it would not count in the least. 

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Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 Wars, wars, wars': reading up on the region I came across one moment when quintessential Englishness had in fact intersected with this darkling plain. In 1906 Winston Churchill, then the minister responsible for British colonies, had been honored by an invitation from Kaiser Wilhelm II to attend the annual maneuvers of the Imperial German Army, held at Breslau. The Kaiser was 'resplendent in the uniform of the White Silesian Cuirassiers' and his massed and regimented infantry...



reminded one more of great Atlantic rollers than human formations. Clouds of cavalry, avalanches of field-guns and 

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Sue Grafton  - Quotes

 Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates. 

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Winston S. Churchill  - Quotes

 (In a post from Africa) Safari, so goody. 

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Winston S. Churchill  - Quotes

 A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. 

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Louise Bogan  - Quotes

 Listening to the prisoned cricket

Shake its terrible dissembling

Music in the granite hill'

- Louise Bogan (Men loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom)
 

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