Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.Winston Churchill
“If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”
Statesman · 1874 – 1965
British prime minister during the Second World War and Nobel laureate in Literature.
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