Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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The further back you can look, the further ahead you will see.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal. What counts is the courage to continue.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equitable distribution of misery.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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There are three types of people; those who worry themselves to death, those who work themselves to death, and those who bore themselves to death.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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Dictatorship, fetishistic devotion to one man, is an ephemeral thing, a state of society in which one cannot express one's own thoughts, in which children denounce their parents to the police; such a state cannot last long.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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Quotations, when etched into our memory, suggest original thoughts to us; moreover, they awaken in us the desire to read the authors from whom they have been taken.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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Personally, I am always willing to learn, although I don't always like to be given lessons.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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To improve is to change; so to be perfect, one must have changed often.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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I always avoid predicting in advance, because it is much easier to do it afterwards.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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The empires of the future will be the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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Never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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What greater thing than to have someone with whom you dare to speak as you do with yourself?