When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

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Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.

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I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me

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Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

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Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

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One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

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There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

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if you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

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The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.

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