Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

—Winston Churchill

About Winston Churchill

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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. For some 62 of the years between...

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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

—Winston Churchill

For myself I am an optimist—it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

—Winston Churchill

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

—Winston Churchill

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

—Winston Churchill

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong-these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

—Winston Churchill

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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

—Robert Fulford

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

—Nicole Kidman

A man that don't believe in destiny don't need to know what his destiny is.

—Marcus Aurelius

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

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