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We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

Queen Elizabeth II

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Blood Community Description Family Mean Nation Necessarily Not Often Organisation Relative
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.
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For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.
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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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[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn’t a servant because they don’t slam doors.
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It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.
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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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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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To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
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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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Come Future Hope Now Once Pass
I should like to be a horse.
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Horse Like Should
Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
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Country Great might Quietly Republic Someday Suggestions
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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Aware Been Continent Ocean People Spread Support Task Throughout Time Wide World
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
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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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I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
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True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
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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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This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community.
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Football’s a difficult business and aren’t they prima donnas. But it’s a wonderful game.
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These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.
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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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Answer Better Cellphone During Formal Important Meet Rang Someone Woman

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