It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
Winston ChurchillRead
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Interpretation
We have control over our own lives and destinies.
This quote emphasizes the idea that despite external circumstances or challenges, individuals retain the power to shape their own lives and influence their destinies. It serves as a reminder of personal agency and the importance of taking responsibility for one's own choices.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to inspire individuals to take charge of their lives.
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.
Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In this sense, we can say that every sin is a sin against man's nature, because it is against man's right reason.
We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.
You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?
Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.
Now, race is one of those topics in America that makes people extraordinarily uncomfortable. You bring it up at a dinner party or in a workplace environment, it is literally the conversational equivalent of touching the third rail.
We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant. He fell for the fake anthropologist Laurens van der Post. He was bowled over by the charms of homeopathic medicine. He has been believably reported as saying that plants do better if you talk to them in a soothing and encouraging way
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