They demand time to look about them, time to see their homes by daylight, to see their children, time to think and read and cultivate their gardens—time, in short, to live.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 6 July 1908

Expert knowledge, however indispensable, is no substitute for a generous and comprehending outlook upon the human story with all its sadness, with all its unquenchable hope.

Winston Churchill · Churchill at the University of Copenhagen in 1950, on what education is for.

Winston Churchill · Fourth Alamein Reunion, Empress Hall, London, 21 October 1949

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 11 December 1941

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Claude Adrien Helvétius · From the preface to De l'Esprit; he adds that this is a principle on which society is not founded.

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William Makepeace Thackeray · The Queen of Paflagonia in 'The Rose and the Ring' (1855) ch. 1.

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