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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

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My Favourite Churchill Quotes

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never - in nothing great and small - large and petty - Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

...I am biased in favour of boys leaning English and then I would let the clever men learn Latin as an Honour and Greek as a treat

NB. I would add "and girls".



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Reasons for acknowledging the authority of the Holy See, Henry Major

The independence of the Holy See, Cardinal Manning

Churchill by Himself, edited by Ricard Langworth

Bruno Chief of Police by Martin Walker





























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Gareth N. Genner
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
I grew up in the United Kingdom and studied law at The University of Wales and the College of Law, London. My wife Barbara, our deceased son, Charles and I moved to Atlanta in 1994. I completed the Management Institute and the Certified Course in Accounting & Finance at Georgia Tech, Certified Mediator training at Oglethorpe and Brand Marketing at Emory. I am completing a PhD in Canon Law with the University of Wales and the Franciscan International Studies Center.I am a Knight of The Order of Malta, a Knight of the Holy Sepulcher, a Commander of the Order of Lazarus and a Knight Commander of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George. I am a LT in the NSCC and edit the Wash-O-Gram. I am a Member of the Coastguard Auxiliary and graduated in the Leadership Sandy Springs Class of 2006. I have served as Honorary Consul to the City of Atlanta and as a Counselor to a United Nations Mission.
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My Favorite Poem

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you but make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, or being hated, don’t give way to hating, and yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream–and not make dreams your master, if you can think–and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same; if you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, and stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss, and lose, and start again at your beginnings and never breath a word about your loss; if you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: “hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with kings–nor lose the common touch, if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; if all men count with you, but none too much, if you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, and–which is more–you’ll be a man, my son!

–Rudyard Kipling



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