Ian Fleming vs. Winston Churchill
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Ian Fleming
1908 – 1964
Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917. Educated at Eton, Sandhurst, and, briefly, the universities of Munich and Geneva, Fleming moved through several jobs before he started writing.
"And I would like a medium Vodka dry Martini — with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred, please. I would prefer Russian or Polish vodka."
Winston Churchill
1940 – 2010
Winston Churchill (1874) was a British statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II, and Nobel Prize winner in Literature.
"Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future."
Connections
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