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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More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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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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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
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It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
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You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.
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We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
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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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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
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In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
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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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It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.
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When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
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[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
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[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You’d better answer that. It could be someone important.
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Good memories are our second chance at happiness.
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The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women
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