There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELICircumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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Finality is not the language of politics.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
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There is no gambling like politics.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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Justice is truth in action.
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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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