I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
- Winston Churchill - In Business
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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
- Napoleon Hill - In Business
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill - In Business
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill - In Government
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Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
- Winston Churchill - In Government
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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill - In Government
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
- Wendell Phillips - In Government
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill - In History
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Every true genius is bound to be naive.
- Friedrich Schiller - In Intelligence
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill - In Nature
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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
- Winston Churchill - In Politics
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Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
- Edmund Hillary - In Science
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Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.
- Winston Churchill - In Success
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill - In Success
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We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
- Winston Churchill - In War
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
- Napoleon Hill - In War
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