- Nov 2024
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www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Winston Churchill's eccentric working habits revealed in rare papers by [[Nadia Khomami]]
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susaneliamacneal.blogspot.com susaneliamacneal.blogspot.com
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Mr. Churchill's Typewriters by [[Susan Elia Macneal]]
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www.worldscientific.com www.worldscientific.com
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“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us,” said Sir Winston Churchill in his speech to the meeting in the House of Lords, October 28, 1943, requesting that the House of Commons bombed out in May 1941 be rebuilt exactly as before.
Is there a document/source?
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- Aug 2024
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quoteinvestigator.com quoteinvestigator.com
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A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes by [[Quote Investigator]]
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- Feb 2024
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www.npr.org www.npr.org
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As King put it: "Winston Churchill once famously observed that Americans will always do the right thing, only after they have tried everything else."
Apparently this quote about America is misattributed to Winston Churchill
Several, including Richard Langsworth, editor of the journal Finest Hour published by WinstonChurchill.org, have been unable to attribute this quote to him.
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Nigel Rees, the host of the long-running BBC quiz show Quote ... Unquote, found so many examples of this oratorical identity theft that he coined a phrase for it: Churchillian Drift.
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But lo!men have become the tools of their tools. The manwho independently plucked the fruits when he was hun¬gry is become a farmer; and he who stood under a treefor shelter, a housekeeper.
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This quote is fascinating when one realizes that the Thoreau family business was manufacturing pencils at John Thoreau & Co., one of the first major pencil companies in the United States. Thoreau's father was the titular John and Henry David worked in the factory and improved upon the hardness of their graphite. https://hypothes.is/a/sm7LUpazEe2tTq_GhGiVIg
One might also then say that the man who manufactured pencils naturally should become a writer!
This quote also bears some interesting resemblance to quotes about tools which shape us by Winston Churchill and John M. Culkin see: https://hypothes.is/a/6Znx6MiMEeu3ljcVBsKNOw
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- Nov 2022
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“Broadly speaking, the shortwords are the best, and the old wordswhen short are best of all,” attestedformer British Prime Minister WinstonChurchill,
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- Oct 2022
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Winston Churchill’s ‘The only time my educationwas interrupted was while I was at school.’
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- Jan 2022
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quoteinvestigator.com quoteinvestigator.com
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We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us. —Winston Churchill
Life imitates art. We shape our tools and thereafter they shape us. — John M. Culkin, “A Schoolman’s Guide to Marshall McLuhan” (The Saturday Review, March 1967) (Culkin was a friend and colleague of Marshall McLuhan)
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- Feb 2019
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www.windycityparrot.com www.windycityparrot.com
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I would be remiss in not mentioning Pres. Roosevelt’s great friend and ally Winston Churchill who not only helped end World War II but was a lover and companion to a number of parrots.
I have never seen a picture with Winston Churchill and parrots. It raises him higher in my esteem. I bet they swore also.
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- Aug 2018
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www.wesjones.com www.wesjones.com
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Are there, in other words, any fundamental "contradictions" in human life that cannot be resolved in the context of modern liberalism, that would be resolvable by an alternative political-economic structure?
Churchill famously said "...democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time..."
Even within this quote it is implicit that there are many others. In some sense he's admitting that we might possibly be at a local maximum but we've just not explored the spaces beyond the adjacent possible.
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- Nov 2016
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www.biography.com www.biography.com
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While serving as first lord of the Admiralty, Churchill helped modernize the British Navy, ordering that new warships be built with oil-fired instead of coal-fired engines. He was one of the first to promote military aircraft and set up the Royal Navy Air Service. So enthusiastic was he about aviation that he took flying lessons to understand firsthand its military potential.
Updated British Navy
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Churchill prevented the fire brigade from extinguishing the flames, stating that he thought it better to "let the house burn down," rather than risk lives rescuing the occupants. The bodies of the two robbers were found inside the charred ruins.
Woah - What?!
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taken prisoner by the Boers while on a scouting expedition. He made headlines when he escaped, traveling almost 300 miles to Portuguese territory in Mozambique. Upon his return to Britain, he wrote about his experiences in the book London to Ladysmith (1900).
- Taking A Stand?
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The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898) and The River War (1899).
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