tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81929881957695727602024-03-13T17:08:32.447+05:30Snapshots.... and thoughtsNatashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481081735923606868noreply@blogger.comBlogger581125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192988195769572760.post-90275993496931160642020-08-06T19:02:00.000+05:302020-08-06T19:02:02.670+05:30Home- Faces<span face="" style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monospace;"><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #87a2a5; font-family: Vollkorn, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o1oU_AUkjUc/XywGQSf44BI/AAAAAAAARHg/nOIczsWve40wxdyL-X0GS7XCSan3IcPhwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/andeveryfacehasastory_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="425" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o1oU_AUkjUc/XywGQSf44BI/AAAAAAAARHg/nOIczsWve40wxdyL-X0GS7XCSan3IcPhwCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/andeveryfacehasastory_1.jpg" /></a></div>“Why can’t you come and live with me?”, my daughter asks. “Frankly, I cannot see the charm of being forced to huddle indoors six months of the year, with nothing but the sound of wind rattling the windows for company.” She cannot understand why someone would choose to spend winters in a place with frozen water-pipes, smoky wood fires and frost-bitten cheeks.<p></p><span style="background-color: white; color: #87a2a5; font-family: Vollkorn, serif; font-size: 20px;">I am happy that my daughter has escaped to the plains- free forever from the harsh winters of Ladakh. I am happy for her, but I can never join her. This is my Home. Nobody willingly chooses Exile.</span></span><div><span face="" style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monospace;">______</span><br /><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #87a2a5; font-family: Vollkorn, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When I train my lens on someone, it is not the face that I attempt to capture- it is the story that lies behind the face. Stories of hope and courage. Stories of loss and betrayal. Stories Stories of passion; stories of emptiness. Stories of the commonplace; stories of the exceptional.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #87a2a5; font-family: Vollkorn, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes, Every Face has a Story to Tell.</p></div>Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481081735923606868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192988195769572760.post-57537057352477885102013-10-04T17:30:00.000+05:302013-10-04T17:30:05.837+05:30You make mistakes<br />
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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.<br />Because if
you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new
things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing
your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more
importantly, you're Doing Something.<br />So that's my wish for you, and
all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious,
amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze,
don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect,
whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.<br />Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.<br />Make your mistakes, next year and forever.” <br /> ― Neil Gaiman<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> </span><br />
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Though I haven't clicked a single picture using my camera for over three months, I've signed up for <a href="http://nablowrimo.blogspot.com/">NaBloWriM</a> again. The intention this time is to attempt to capture my world by taking a photograph on my i-pad everyday during the month of October. Hope I can wing it!Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481081735923606868noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192988195769572760.post-16216005206290114342013-10-03T09:54:00.000+05:302013-10-04T09:55:24.827+05:30Becoming Fearless<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
<br /> ―
Veronica Roth,
Divergent
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Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481081735923606868noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192988195769572760.post-47699693528801694962013-10-02T05:30:00.000+05:302013-10-02T05:30:05.471+05:30... the victim of growing up....<div>
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"I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens
to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some
time now, without me knowing it... back then naivety was the norm and
skepticism was a foreign language, and I just think every once in a
while you need fries and a chocolate milkshake and your mom. I love
picking up a cookbook and closing my eyes and opening it to a random
page, then attempting to make that recipe."</div>
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<i>- Taylor Swift </i><br />
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Though I haven't clicked a single picture using my camera for over three months, I've signed up for <a href="http://nablowrimo.blogspot.com/">NaBloWriM</a>
again. The intention this time is to attempt to capture my world by
taking a photograph on my i-pad everyday during the month of October.
Hope I can wing it!</div>
Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481081735923606868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192988195769572760.post-89865618188777437552013-10-01T17:30:00.000+05:302013-10-01T17:36:25.236+05:30...wouldn't be possible without coffee...<div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;">“Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said.</span></div>
<span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: left;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: left;">"No work would be possible without coffee."</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: left;">They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.” </span></span></div>
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Though I haven't clicked a single picture using my camera for over three months, I've signed up for <a href="http://nablowrimo.blogspot.com/">NaBloWriM</a> again. The intention this time is to attempt to capture my world by taking a photograph on my i-pad everyday during the month of October. Hope I can wing it!Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481081735923606868noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192988195769572760.post-33499677200427519802013-06-19T20:00:00.004+05:302013-06-19T20:00:47.042+05:30Who cares????<div>
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<br />“You know, just because you think bubblegum pop on the radio represents all that is wrong with society, that doesn’t mean there’s not someone out there who needs that shitty pop song. Maybe that shitty pop song makes them feel good, about themselves and the world. And as long as that shitty pop song doesn’t infringe upon your rights to rock out to, I don’t know, Subway Sect, or Siouxsie and the Banshees, or whichever old-ass band it is you worship, then who cares?”<br /><div style="text-align: center;">
― Hannah Harrington, Saving June</div>
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Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481081735923606868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192988195769572760.post-13961934011928472192013-05-18T13:01:00.000+05:302013-05-18T13:01:00.071+05:30What could be nicer?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?”<br />
<span class="st">Anthony Trollope</span> Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481081735923606868noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192988195769572760.post-90488138743824482832013-05-16T12:58:00.000+05:302013-05-16T12:58:00.254+05:30The winds and waves<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="userContent">“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”<br /> ― Edward Gibbon</span>Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481081735923606868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192988195769572760.post-48714248524500133902013-05-06T12:56:00.000+05:302013-05-15T13:02:44.851+05:30Wimpy Kid<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="userContent">"Luckily, I remember just about everything
that's happened to me since I was born. In fact, I can remember stuff
that happened to me BEFORE I was born.<br /> Back in those days, it was just me swimming around in the dark, doing backflips and taking naps whenever I wanted."</span><br />
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel -Jeff Kinney</div>
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Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481081735923606868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192988195769572760.post-34321580156050080162013-04-30T17:30:00.000+05:302013-04-30T17:30:07.122+05:30Z for Zephyr<div style="text-align: center;">
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“And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a
collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day
should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to
animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing
breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is
about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee
and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.”
<br /> ―
Nicholas Sparks<br /></div>
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<i>This post forms a part of the Blogging for A to Z Challenge. A quote a day based on the chosen word. A photograph that means something to me in relation to the word, but may not to you. </i>Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481081735923606868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192988195769572760.post-36579475271947359642013-04-29T14:33:00.000+05:302013-04-30T14:35:05.304+05:30Y for .... Youth<div style="text-align: center;">
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“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
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―
J.M. Barrie,
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The Admirable Crichton
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<i>This post forms a part of the Blogging for A to Z Challenge. A quote a day based on the chosen word. A photograph that means something to me in relation to the word, but may not to you. </i>Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481081735923606868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192988195769572760.post-21605227857364469372013-04-27T14:37:00.000+05:302013-04-30T14:45:10.610+05:30X for ... Xerox<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />“You were born an original. <br />Don't die a copy.” <br /> ― John Mason<i> </i></div>
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<i>This post forms a part of the Blogging for A to Z Challenge. A quote a day based on the chosen word. A photograph that means something to me in relation to the word, but may not to you. </i>Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481081735923606868noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192988195769572760.post-40691855113739619202013-04-26T18:58:00.000+05:302013-04-30T14:47:32.048+05:30W for ... Winner<div style="text-align: center;">
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“Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't
mean you're not a winner, you want to be like yourself. I want my fans
to know it's okay.”
<br /> ―
Lady Gaga</div>
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<i>This post forms a part of the Blogging for A to Z Challenge. A quote a day based on the chosen word. A photograph that means something to me in relation to the word, but may not to you. </i>Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481081735923606868noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192988195769572760.post-17855867065560375332013-04-26T18:55:00.001+05:302013-04-30T14:47:32.030+05:30V for .....Variety<div style="text-align: center;">
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“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
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Leo Tolstoy,
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Anna Karenina
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<i>This post forms a part of the Blogging for A to Z Challenge. A quote a day based on the chosen word. A photograph that means something to me in relation to the word, but may not to you. </i>Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481081735923606868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192988195769572760.post-68058381801494437112013-04-24T18:04:00.002+05:302013-04-24T18:04:48.378+05:30U for ... Ugly<div style="text-align: center;">
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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without
being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in
beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are
the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such
thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly
written. That is all.”
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Oscar Wilde,
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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<i>This post forms a part of the Blogging for A to Z Challenge. A quote a day based on the chosen word. A photograph that means something to me in relation to the word, but may not to you. </i>Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481081735923606868noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192988195769572760.post-9690166629592405192013-04-23T18:02:00.000+05:302013-04-30T14:47:32.068+05:30T for... Travel<div style="text-align: center;">
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“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
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Robert Louis Stevenson<i></i></div>
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<i>This post forms a part of the Blogging for A to Z Challenge. A quote a day based on the chosen word. A photograph that means something to me in relation to the word, but may not to you. </i>Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481081735923606868noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192988195769572760.post-82416810277093805662013-04-22T20:15:00.001+05:302013-04-30T14:47:32.061+05:30S is for Sisters<div style="text-align: center;">
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“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."<br />(Keynote speech at <em>Celebrating Inspiration</em> luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)”
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Madeleine Albright</div>
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<i>This post forms a part of the Blogging for A to Z Challenge. A quote a day based on the chosen word. A photograph that means something to me in relation to the word, but may not to you. </i>Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481081735923606868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192988195769572760.post-83252965072331054092013-04-20T20:01:00.002+05:302013-04-30T14:47:32.065+05:30R is for Reading<div style="text-align: center;">
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“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
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Dr. Seuss<i></i></div>
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<i>This post forms a part of the Blogging for A to Z Challenge. A quote a day based on the chosen word. A photograph that means something to me in relation to the word, but may not to you. </i>Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481081735923606868noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192988195769572760.post-56801495996078546882013-04-19T19:47:00.003+05:302013-04-19T19:47:56.274+05:30Q is for .... Quarrel<div style="text-align: center;">
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“Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking
they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long as adults do. Most
adults have the advantage of education over children, but what is the
use of an education if they show a big smile while hiding negative
feelings deep inside? Children don't usually act in such a manner. If
they feel angry with someone, they express it, and then it is finished.
They can still play with that person the following day.”
<br /> ―
Dalai Lama XIV</div>
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<i>This post forms a part of the Blogging for A to Z Challenge. A quote a day based on the chosen word. A photograph that means something to me in relation to the word, but may not to you. </i>Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481081735923606868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192988195769572760.post-33139042879130953272013-04-18T20:02:00.001+05:302013-04-18T20:02:31.471+05:30P is for .... Passion<div style="text-align: center;">
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“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do
so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style”
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Maya Angelou</div>
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<i>This post forms a part of the Blogging for A to Z Challenge. A quote a day based on the chosen word. A photograph that means something to me in relation to the word, but may not to you. </i>Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481081735923606868noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192988195769572760.post-32841045094528300202013-04-17T20:02:00.001+05:302013-04-17T20:02:28.076+05:30O is for.... On Your Own<div style="text-align: center;">
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“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can
steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you
know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
<br /> ―
Dr. Seuss,
<i>
Oh, the Places You'll Go!
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“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”
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Salman Rushdie</div>
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<i>This post forms a part of the Blogging for A to Z Challenge. A quote a day based on the chosen word. A photograph that means something to me in relation to the word, but may not to you. </i>Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481081735923606868noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192988195769572760.post-43394540107805537852013-04-15T20:01:00.001+05:302013-04-15T20:01:12.389+05:30M for Mail<div style="text-align: center;">
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“Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.”
<br /> ―
Jennifer Egan,
<i>
A Visit from the Goon Squad
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<i>This post forms a part of the Blogging for A to Z Challenge. A quote a day based on the chosen word. A photograph that means something to me in relation to the word, but may not to you. </i>Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481081735923606868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192988195769572760.post-40769399410926979022013-04-13T17:17:00.001+05:302013-04-13T17:17:42.742+05:30L for Laughter<div style="text-align: center;">
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“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
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―
E.E. Cummings</div>
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<i>This post forms a part of the Blogging for A to Z Challenge. A quote a day based on the chosen word. A photograph that means something to me in relation to the word, but may not to you. </i>Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481081735923606868noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192988195769572760.post-26592812792251463582013-04-12T18:05:00.001+05:302013-04-12T18:05:18.889+05:30K for Kite<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
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Winston Churchill<br />
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