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"We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep."
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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

"The value of time is immeasurable."

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."

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"It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime."

"The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women."

"To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?"

"I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong."

"Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements."

"I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations."

"We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep."
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