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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. Winston Churchill
You Backward See Look Farther Forward
If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Work Hard Work Great Knowledge Perseverance Aim Followed Having Achieved Anything Acquiring Then Hard Things Four
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. Winston Churchill
Only Opinion Public Public Opinion Published Thing
Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans. Evo Morales
Environmental Rights Mother Will Live Too Later Earth Recognise Must Sooner Sooner Or Later Know Mother Earth Without Human Human Beings Pollution Cannot Mankind Planet Beings Humans
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. Winston Churchill
Man Prosperity Try Nation Lift Bucket Like Himself Contend Up Itself Handle Trying Tax Standing
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. Winston Churchill
Bit Always Saint Patrick's Day Odd Irish Refuse English Found
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. Pericles
Politics You Take Because Just Just Because Interest Mean
The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Life Bird Own Powered Motivation
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. Nelson Mandela
Freedom Free Live Others Way Respects Cast Merely Off Chains Enhances
The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes. Benjamin Disraeli
Success Opportunity Secret Ready The Secret Of Success Is Your
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. Nelson Mandela
Death Freedom Walk Will Before Our Valley Easy Shadow Through Reach Pass Mountaintop Anywhere Again Us Many Desires
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Winston Churchill
Change Mind His Subject Fanatic Who
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. Winston Churchill
Survival Victory Long Costs Spite Road Without Terror However May Hard
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. Colin Powell
Attitude You Achieve Big Matters Prevailing Excellence Habit Exception Develop Going Big Things Little Things
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Winston Churchill
Inside Wrapped Russia Mystery Riddle Enigma
History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity. Haile Selassie
Strength History Overcome Goals Path Differences Unity Our Strive Brotherhood True Combined Quest Submerge Common African Us Teaches
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community. Haile Selassie
Courage Men Become Community Petty Our Members Must Spirit Allegiance More Outlook New Fellow Overcoming Courageous Fellow Men Greater Within Ultimate Been Than Owing Human Nations Bigger Race Prejudice Larger
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. Winston Churchill
Words Those Slip Out Unsaid Masters Slaves
War is never a lasting solution for any problem. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
War Problem Lasting Solution Never Any
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there. Kofi Annan
You Live Must Know Well Go Get Where Want Stand Choose Who Why
Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Happiness Poetry Highest Sorrow Deepest
The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all. Fidel Castro
Work Education Dreams Health Food Justice Struggle Rights Science Culture Equality World Wish Addition Our Our Dreams Those Our World Security Citizens Emerge Equal Equal Right Wellbeing Began Same Which Proclaimed Inhabitants Right
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. Winston Churchill
Time You Communication Try Important Clever Tremendous Back Once Point Driver Come Make Pile Hit Whack Subtle Again Then Use Third
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. Winston Churchill
Politics You Respect Law Destroy Thousand Ten Regulations
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom. Nelson Mandela
Freedom Responsibility Rich Enrich Further Weaker Cost Powerful New Name Empower Globalization Protest Does Often Where Themselves Poorer Means Now Universal
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. Edmund Burke
Promises Hypocrisy Nothing Promise Costs Magnificent Never Beyond Go Afford Intending
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