"I like things to happen, and if..." - Quote by Winston Churchill
I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.
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“In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric fever. Better known as typhoid, the disease is often spread by drinking contaminated water.”
“If a woman has "It," she doesn't need anything else; but if she doesn't have "It," it doesn't matter what else she has.”
“We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.”
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“Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.”
“Care enough to make a difference. Care enough to turn somebody around. Care enough to change. Care enough to win.”
“All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one up to now has measured up to and, strictly considered, no one should. With all their study and effort, people are directed to what is outside, to the world about them, and they are kept busy coming to know this and to master it to the extent that their purposes require. . . . How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. And what is your duty? Whatever the day calls for.”