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"Political correctness is tyranny with manners." - Charlton Heston (1924-2008)

 

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"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." - Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

 

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"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion." - Robert Pirsig (194

 

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"Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer." - Saint Thomas More (1478-1535)

 

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"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better." - A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)

 

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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill

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A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill

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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill

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A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
Winston Churchill

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A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill

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A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston Churchill

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill

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Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
Winston Churchill

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

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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

 

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A woman knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking

 

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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

 

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God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.

 

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The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

 

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To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

 

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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

 

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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

 

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Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

 

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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.