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We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#happened #hurry #most #nothing #occasionally

It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#countries #done #in the past #interests #meddle

I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#been #believe #boy #certain #could

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#many #ny times #once #only #politics

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#opinion #public #public opinion #published #such

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#am #anything #certainly #fact #i

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#i #martyrdom #postponed #preferred #prepared

But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our culture is intense. For instance, decade after decade bright young men and women emerge from their universities able to say proudly: 'Of course I know nothing about German literature.' It is the mode. The Victorians knew everything about German literature, but were able with a clear conscience not to know much about the French. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#novel #writing #education

Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#body #connection #contagion #could #detained

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#brought #contempt #drunk #get #i