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"When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there."
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Personal Development
"Go the extra mile to do the undone, but work within your limits, and in doing so also, don't be a coward to question things within your limit that are not all that right, and don't be too arrogant or proud or be filled with excessive knowledge to do things which might though be within your limit, yet out of limit, for you must live and leave nothing, but distinctive and lasting footprints!"
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Personal Development
"Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old."
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Personal Development
"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."
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Personal Development
"The first rule when you are in a hole is to ask for a hand out!"
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Personal Development
"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."
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Personal Development
"O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!"
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Personal Development
"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."
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Personal Development
"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."
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Personal Development
"Never let your education interfere with your learning."
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"You can divide my life into two."
Life
"What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?"
Obligation
"Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children."
Family
"It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability."
Family
"In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society."
Society
"My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me."
Family
"I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man."
Man
"No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew."
Knowledge
"Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century."
Life
"Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could."
Determination
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