"It may well be that we shall by……" — Winston Churchill
"It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation."
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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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More Annihilation Quotes
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What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.
— Horatio Nelson
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But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation,…
— Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
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Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live.…
— Sun Tzu
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Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation...
— Ludwig von Mises
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Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
— Winifred Holtby
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Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the…
— Adolf Hitler
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young,…
— Bertrand Russell
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Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now…
— Charles Darwin
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But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where…
— Robert Boyle
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Nature abhors annihilation.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe…
— Marquis de Sade
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