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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Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.
Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.
Constantrepetition carries conviction.
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.
Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.
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.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.
Liberation is not deliverance.
We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.
A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.