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The English know how to make ...

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

Winston Churchill 1582 quotes

Immense deposits of kimmeridg...

Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition of the native resource. The Geological Survey had identified the inflammable oil shale in reports since at least 1888.]

Winston Churchill 1582 quotes

No matter how enmeshed a comm...

No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account.

Winston Churchill 1582 quotes

The eagle has ceased to screa...

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

Winston Churchill 1582 quotes

Here is the answer which I wi...

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Winston Churchill 1582 quotes

An efficient and a successful...

An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.

Winston Churchill 1582 quotes

To meet Roosevelt with all hi...

To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.

Winston Churchill 1582 quotes

The British people are good a...

The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.

Winston Churchill 1582 quotes

Air power can either paralyze...

Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack.

Winston Churchill 1582 quotes

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for ...

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

Winston Churchill 1582 quotes

Anyone can rat, but it takes ...

Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

Winston Churchill 1582 quotes

There must be what Mr. Gladst...

There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

Winston Churchill 1582 quotes

You ask what the aim is? I te...

You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.

Winston Churchill 1582 quotes

Human beings are of two class...

Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.

Winston Churchill 1582 quotes

In the past we have had a lig...

In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.

Winston Churchill 1582 quotes

On 17th July there came to us...

On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in the [New] Mexican desert. Success beyond all dreams crowded this sombre, magnificent venture of our American allies. The detailed reports ... could leave no doubt in the minds of the very few who were informed, that we were in the presence of a new factor in human affairs, and possessed of powers which were irresistible.

Winston Churchill 1582 quotes

Little did we guess that what...

Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world.

Winston Churchill 1582 quotes

I have not always been wrong....

I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

Winston Churchill 1582 quotes

Democracy is the best form of...

Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government

Winston Churchill 1582 quotes

A pessimist sees problems in ...

A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.

Winston Churchill 1582 quotes

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....