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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
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Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions. Winston S. Churchill
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On August 9th, 1940, Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of UK, sent a Memorandum to the War Cabinet . He asked his staff to write shorter Reports and to avoid those useless phrases which could be replaced by one word.
In particular he wrote, in the final part of the Memorandum:
The saving in time will be great, while the discipline of setting out the real point concisely will prove an aid to clearer thinking.
Copy of the original document is available at UK National Archives http://www.ukwarcabinet.org.uk/documents/345
Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential. – Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874-1965)
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm – Winston Churchill
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