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Quote by Winston Churchill
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes,

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. – Winston Churchill

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I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. – Winston Churchill

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Politics
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Winston Churchill
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. – Winston Churchill

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Men
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And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me. – Black Elk

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Fear

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out. – Dean Inge

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All the times Ive been lucky enough to be a part of a show thats actually gotten on the air, its always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear. – J. J. Abrams

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The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear. – George Weinberg

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Would I might rouse the Lincoln in you all. – Vachel Lindsay

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We have not sought this conflict we have sought too long to avoid it our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands. – Robert Toombs

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