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"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

"If you are going through hell, keep going."

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival."

"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things."

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

"There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true."

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
Government

"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time."
Government

"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him."

"By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach."

"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught."

"The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye."

"In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet."

"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."

"I like a man who grins when he fights."

"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."

"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam."
Success

"The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read."

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