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 I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.  Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad work. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me; Shall be my brother. Trouble is the thing that strong men grow by. Met in the right way, it is a sure-fire means of putting iron into the victim's will and making him a tougher man to down forever after. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. It is the duty of Her Majesty's Government neither to flap nor to falter. I believe the greatest asset a Head of State can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep. I've been on every diet in the world. The best one is the BBC diet: Buy Bigger Clothes. Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers from which they dare not dismount. Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool. A man who accustoms himself to buy superfluities is often in want of necessities. Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make oneself its slave. The king reigns, but does not govern. Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people. The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings. A friend is one who dislikes the same people that you dislike. "Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it." Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic, and more time to drive to the office. 
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