It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
Winston ChurchillRead
You create your own universe as you go along.
Interpretation
We have the power to shape our own reality through our choices and actions.
This quote emphasizes the idea that individuals have the ability to shape their own lives and experiences. It suggests that as we navigate through life, our decisions and mindset play a significant role in creating our personal universe, shaping how we perceive and interact with the world around us.
In practice
During a motivational speech about personal growth.
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.
Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.
My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
To be able to function in late capitalism without being a psychological wreck, it is necessary to accept the insane as standard.
In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.
Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
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