Poems List

Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.
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Success is never final.
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You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.
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What kind of people do they think we are, do they think we will be bowed by their tryanny?

Speaking of the Japanese invasion of British colonies in SE Asia

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All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
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Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?

responding to a journalist

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We shape our buildings and they shape us.
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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

(1874-1965)

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We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

speech in the House of Commons, July 14, 1940

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We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

BBC radio broadcast, Feb 9, 1941

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