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Quotes by Statesman
"Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money."
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"Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh."
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"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."
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"A nation that forgets its past has no future."
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"He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason."
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"People stumble over the truth from time to time,but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."
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"You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world."
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"The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct."
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"It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
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"To be a highflier and a name to conjure with, you must decide your dimension, plan your path, master the moment, focus on the future, determine your degree, push your persistence and leadyour life."
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"For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls."
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"It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want."
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"With our writings, we can right the world."
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"The audacity of my sagacity is instrumentality to my successity."
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"The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle."
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"In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously."
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"Never take anything for granted."
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"The maxim "Nothing avails but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis.""
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"The English nation is never so great as in adversity."
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"Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, "Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down."
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"He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
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"Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius."
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"I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin."
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"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."
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"Confidence confers on you the courage to conquer challenges."
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"Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen."
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"When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone."
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"The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS."
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"Never, never, never give up."
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"I have nothing to say to the nothing that has been said."
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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
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"An great building will never stand if you neglect the small bricks."
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"I am the captain of my soul."
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"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."
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"People may laugh at what I do but am not perturbed. My work is to add value to lives. I will keep living my dreams so that by the time my mortal body may stop working, I will remain immortally relevant to generations to come."
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"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."
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