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They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole. …

Queen Elizabeth II

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True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
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It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
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1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it hasturned out to be an Annus Horribilis.
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It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.
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I hope people will think very carefully about the future.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
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[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
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I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie.
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I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.
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Grief is the price we pay for love.
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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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Think what we would have missed if we had never … used a mobile phone or surfed the Net — or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.
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[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It’s unfair. If a man looks solemn, it’s automatically assumed he’s a serious person, not a miserable one.
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Good memories are our second chance at happiness.
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The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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For Christians, as for all people of faith, reflection, meditation and prayer help us to renew ourselves in God’s love, as we strive daily to become better people.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
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Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit.
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
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In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy.
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