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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: inspirational, optimism
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
    ― Winston Churchill, Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: success
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: apocryphal, attributed-no-source, classic-insult, drinking, drunkenness, retort
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: best, forlorn-hope, perseverance, resolve
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Never, never, never give in!”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: perseverance, wisdom
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
    ― Winston Churchill
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: history, humor, writing
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: humor, taste
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: hell, perseverance
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “The price of greatness is responsibility.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: inspiration, responsibility
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: perseverance
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: attitude, humor, inspirational
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: books
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one."
    — George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)

    "Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
    — Churchill's response”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: change
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.”
    ― Sir Winston Churchill
    tags: inspirational, life, success
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: free-speech
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: analogy, public-speaking, simile, speaking
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill, Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
    tags: inspirational
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: military
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: distractions
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: humor
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: persistence, public-speaking, speeches
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.”
    ― Winston Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force
    tags: causation, fact, relief, results, sea, theory
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”
    ― Winston Spencer-Churchill
    tags: humility
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope”
    ― Winston Churchill
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