A shallow copper bowl filled with green leaves balances on three slender legs.

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Winston Churchill

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A statement about lopsided gratitude: a huge number of people owe something to a tiny group. The pairing of 'so many' and 'so few' makes the imbalance the point, and the sweeping phrase 'field of human conflict' makes the debt sound vast.

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