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Nancy Astor
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Crisis as Finest Hour Opportunity, Never Surrender Absolutism, Many Ideas Generate Few Good Ones
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Lady Astor snapped, “Winston, if I were your wife, I’d put poison in your coffee,” he’d retorted, “Nancy, if I were your husband, I’d drink it.”
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"Lady Astor snapped, “Winston, if I were your wife, I’d put poison in your coffee,” he’d retorted, “Nancy, if I were your husband, I’d drink it.”"
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