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"The maxim of the british people is 'Business as Usual.'" »Winston Churchill
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"They say the sun never sets over the british Empire, but it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded." »Steven Wright
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"To disagree with three-fourths of the british public is one of the first requisites of sanity." »Oscar Wilde
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"If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the british Museum." »Sir Arthur Eddington
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"Among the many misdeeds of the british rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"Americans and british have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator,' we say 'lift' ... they say 'President,' we say 'stupid psychopathic git.'" »Alexis Sayle
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"Among the many misdeeds of the british rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the british Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour." »Winston Churchill
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"N.B. This quote refers to the british disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the british public." »George Bernard Shaw
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"The british nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst." »Winston Churchill
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"Winston Churchill was not entirely british. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian." »Rachel Blanchard
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"A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as british as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance." »Clark Kerr
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"Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the british could have managed it." »Charles Krauthammer
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"Among the virtues and vices that make up the british character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years." »William Golding
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"It's important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians, and one of the strengths of the british is that they don't on the whole... The danger begins when people start admiring politicians." »Richard Ingrams
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"The historical crusades against Muslim lands, the colonization of Spain by the Muslim Moors and India by the british were all driven by economic interests, despite the advertised reasons that were used to mobilize their armies at the time. In my opinion, the invasion of Iraq was not about spreading democracy or weapons of mass destruction, it was about the oil.
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"Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,To taste awhile the pleasures of a courtIn various talk th'instuctive hours they past,Who gave the ball, or paid the visit lastOne speaks the glory of the british Queen,And one describes a charming Indian screenlA third interprets motions, looks and eyesAt every word a reputation dies." »Alexander Pope
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"The knowledge, wealth, and development gaps among nations is reducing and the reign of superpowers is shortening. Just look at the history of the Roman, Islamic, Russian and british empires, the newer the power the shorter the reign. In the economic and business worlds the same power cycles apply. Ford, IBM, Nokia and other companies all lost their leadership position to newer companies." »Med Jones
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"The knowledge, wealth, and development gaps among nations is reducing and the reign of superpowers is shortening. Just look at the history of the Roman, Islamic, Russian and british empires, the newer the power the shorter the reign. In the economic and business worlds the same power cycles apply. Ford, IBM, Nokia and other companies lost their leadership position to newer companies faster than their predecessors" »Med Jones
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"To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis. He has already more men on his pay-roll than their population. It is conceivable that a syndicate of Fords, if we could find them, would make Belgium Ltd. or Denmark Inc. pay their way. But while nationalization of certain industries is an obvious possibility in the largest of states, I find it no easier to picture a completely socialized british Empire or United States than an elephant turning somersaults or a hippopotamus jumping a hedge." »J.B.S. Haldane, "On Being the Right Size" in the (1928) book "Possible Worlds"
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