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Clementine Churchill
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Crisis as Finest Hour Opportunity, Never Surrender Absolutism, Many Ideas Generate Few Good Ones
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At a dinner party, guests answered in turn the question, “If you could not be who you are, who would you like to be?” When Churchill’s turn came, he turned to Clementine and said, “Mrs. Churchill’s second husband.”
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"At a dinner party, guests answered in turn the question, “If you could not be who you are, who would you like to be?” When Churchill’s turn came, he turned to Clementine and said, “Mrs. Churchill’s second husband.”"
Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill
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Crisis as Finest Hour OpportunityNever Surrender AbsolutismMany Ideas Generate Few Good OnesWords as Weapons Before BulletsIntense Simplicities From ComplexitySelf-Deprecating Humor as DisarmamentDemocracy Despite Its FlawsFighting Nations Rise AgainSimplify Self Into SymbolMemorized Speech as Spontaneous PerformanceShort Words Over Long OnesAccountability Over Advisory Layers