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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#am #brilliant #browns #cannot #colours

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#feel #his #madman #mouth #open

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#bear #cannot #dejected #endure #equal

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#i #individual #manners #men #species

We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#afford #any #become #broken #business

Where the law ends tyranny begins. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#ends #law #tyranny #where

I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away. ↗

— Debbi Fields

#any #away #baked #best #cannot

Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds? ↗

— Albert Claude

#also #behavior #bringing #cells #come

I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care - that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show. ↗

— Beyonce Knowles

#channel #energy #give #great #hard