Given afair wind,

Given afair wind,
Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.
  

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Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.
Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.
If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore
I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.
He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.
Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.
Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.
It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.
Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.