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Biography - Winston Churchill:

British politician and statesman.
Born: 1874 - Died: 1965
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.



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Quotes for: game


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Quotes for: game


My work is a game, a very serious game.





For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.





Play is experimenting with chance.





A constant element of enjoyment must be mingled with our studies, so that we think of learning as a game rather than a form of drudgery, for no activity can be continued for long if it does not to some extent afford pleasure to the participant.





This is the real secret of life: to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now, and instead of calling it 'work', realize that this is play.





Let a child play and mix instruction with play.







Quotes for: politics


Quotes

Quotes for: politics


Man is by nature a political animal.





Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.





Article II – The goal of any political association is the conservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, safety and resistance against oppression.





In affairs of state the principles and the foundations must be truth and justice.





My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.





Politics have no relation to morals.











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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.





The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.





Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.





The price of greatness is responsibility.





Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.





For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.












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