"It is not open to the cool bystander……" — Winston Churchill
"It is not open to the cool bystander . . . to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which would never have occurred had he outstretched a helping hand in time."
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1,057 Quotes by Winston Churchill
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the…
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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and…
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
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Never, never, never give up.
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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
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In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor…
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The proponents of UFOs offer up impressive quantities of principally eyewitness data, which although largely subjective and circumstantial in nature,…
— Peter Davenport
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power…
— Dorothea Lange
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It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do…
— Judith Lewis Herman
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Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, don’t put a character…
— Les Standiford
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I used to wonder why God used a prop like the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil to inflict…
— Jon Rappoport
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How then shall mathematical concepts be judged? They shall not be judged. Mathematics is the supreme arbiter. From its decisions…
— Unknown Author
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I come from a people who gave the Ten Commandments to the world. Time has come to strenghten them by…
— Yehuda Bauer
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Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.
— Daniel Goleman
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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
— Elie Wiesel
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Don't settle! Embrace a dream--and keep dreaming. Don't be a bystander. Take it personally.
— Howard Schultz
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In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War…
— Sam Kean
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