Winston Churchill Quotes on Wisdom
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
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The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
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Variant: The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
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When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.