An empty taxi arrived and out of it stepped Attlee.

 

An empty taxi arrived and out of it stepped Attlee.
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Mr Attlee is an honourable and gallant gentleman, and a faithful colleague who served his country well at the time of her greatest need. I should be obliged if you would make it clear whenever an occasion arises that I would never make such a remark about him, and that I strongly disapprove of anybody who does.
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Churchill to John Colville (quoted in Nigel Rees, Sayings of the Century page 106).

 

Winston Churchill

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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.

 

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Attlee: I'm one of those people who are incapable of religious feeling.
Harris: Do you mean you have no feeling about Christianity, or that you have no feeling about God, Christ, and life after death?
Attlee: Believe in the ethics of Christianity. Can't believe in the mumbo jumbo.
Harris: Would you say you are in agnostic?
Attlee: I don't know.
Harris: Is there an after-life, do you think?
Attlee: Possibly.

 

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Empty pockets never held anyone back...it's only empty heads and empty hearts that do it.

 

Norman Vincent Peale

 

I finally arrived here in 1968. What a special day it was. I remember I arrived here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of determination, full of desire. The presidential campaign was in full swing. I remember watching the Nixon-Humphrey presidential race on TV. A friend of mine who spoke German and English translated for me. I heard Humphrey saying things that sounded like socialism, which I had just left. But then I heard Nixon speak. He was talking about free enterprise, getting the government off your back, lowering the taxes and strengthening the military. Listening to Nixon speak sounded more like a breath of fresh air. I said to my friend, I said, "What party is he?" My friend said, "He's a Republican." I said, "Then I am a Republican." And I have been a Republican ever since.

 

Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

 

Eric Hoffer