George VI famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us to fight through to final victory.
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It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.
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There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by.
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The British Empire has advanced to a new conception of autonomyand freedom, to the idea of a system of British nations, each freely ordering its own individual life, but bound together in unity byallegiance to one Crown, and co-operating in all that concerns the common weal.
-- George VI
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War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.
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A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
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For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.
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We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.
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There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
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Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
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The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
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I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
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Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
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