If you are going through hell…
If you are going through hell, keep going.
— Winston Churchill
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But there is another basic requirement, and I can’t understand now how I forgot it at the time…
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Hope springs eternal in the human heart.
— Alexander Pope, Essay on Man
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Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead.
— David Farragut, Union Admiral during the American Civil War
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If I wished to put a curse on a nation, I would invoke the gods to decree that it be governed by those who consider themselves to be the only true patriots in it.