“One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.”

—  Winston S. Churchill

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965

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