Which of these quotes are a quote by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

21 10 2007

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Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
George Moore
Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
Stephen Covey
We will have no truce or parlay with you Hitler, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst — and we will do our best.
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I’m tired of Love I’m still more tired of Rhyme. But Money gives me pleasure all the time.
Hilaire Belloc
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentia gaudet amantis. (Though she may herself burn, she delights in her lover’s torment.)
Juvenal
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
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The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.
What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us Maybe it’s because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, ‘I’m with you kid. Let’s go.’
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Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They’re icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.

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May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us
Wystan Hugh Auden
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Anon.
Ignorant men don’t know what good they hold in their hands until they’ve flung it away.
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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
The knowledge of Christ’s love for us should cause us to love Him in such a way that it is demonstrated in our attitude, conduct, and commitment to serve God. Spiritual maturity is marked by spiritual knowledge being put into action.
Edward Bedore

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It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it
L. M. Montgomery
Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.
Anouk Aimee
Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
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You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
Anouk Aimee
Carl would have to be fast to beat the stranger. Real fast. ‘Draw,’ said the stranger. Carl went for his gun, but then ‘Hey, where did all these angels come from’
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
All hope abandon, ye who enter here
Dante Alighieri
All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You–you alone have the stars as no one else has them
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.
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