Your favourite quote of all time?
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Re: Your favourite quote of all time?Oooh... I have to say, I like Obama's 'heres my birthing video' moment :P.... not history yet though..... or is it?!? :O(Original post by Hazular)
I think I know the bit you mean
My input:
"Mr Churchill, you're drunk."
"Bessie, you are ugly. You are very ugly. I’ll be sober in the morning."
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Re: Your favourite quote of all time?Anything that happened before now is history(Original post by bacforever3)
Oooh... I have to say, I like Obama's 'heres my birthing video' moment :P.... not history yet though..... or is it?!? :O
That made no sense but you see where I'm coming from, ehehe.
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Re: Your favourite quote of all time?what you just said there....(Original post by Hazular)
Anything that happened before now is history
That made no sense but you see where I'm coming from, ehehe.
total history!!!
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Re: Your favourite quote of all time?
"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions." - Marx
"Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity." - Marx (again)
"A statesman...must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment." - Bismarck
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Re: Your favourite quote of all time?That is a cracker. He really was a genius of his time.(Original post by G4henderson)
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
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Re: Your favourite quote of all time?
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow.
By Winston Churchill
I have to elaborate this a bit
This quote by is not that important by many people, but it is the first time that someone spoke of the idea that would shape the world in the next 50 years. This is the essence of the Cold War and the essence of the East-West Struggle. Moreover I am intrigued by the Churchill missing the Yugoslava that was communist country and yet he did not align it to either side. (if someone has other opinions quote me or pm to response)
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Re: Your favourite quote of all time?Hypocrisy. Churchill was one of the people who created "the iron curtain".(Original post by terza021)
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow.
By Winston Churchill
I have to elaborate this a bit
This quote by is not that important by many people, but it is the first time that someone spoke of the idea that would shape the world in the next 50 years. This is the essence of the Cold War and the essence of the East-West Struggle. Moreover I am intrigued by the Churchill missing the Yugoslava that was communist country and yet he did not align it to either side. (if someone has other opinions quote me or pm to response)
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Re: Your favourite quote of all time?The Churchill one is true, and very very clever. Churchill was a great master of wit, and quick answering, something I wish I could be(Original post by tface)
It may be fake but it is awesome
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"Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea!" "And if you were my wife, I would drink it!"
Another good one, misattributed to Stalin:
"The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic."

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