It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life …

Winston Churchill
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It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events. ✨ Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words
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