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“Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.”
William Manchester Quotes |
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“Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth.”
Richard M. Nixon Quotes |
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“You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.”
Richard M. Nixon Quotes |
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“I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.”
Oliver North Quotes |
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“Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.”
Evita Peron Quotes |
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“We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.”
Juan Antonio Samaranch Quotes |
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“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.”
George Santayana Quotes |
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“[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.”
Adm James Stockdale Quotes |
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“To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.”
Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
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“History is a vision of God's creation on the move.”
Arnold J. Toynbee Quotes |
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“The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.”
Jessamyn West Quotes |
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“I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.”
Theodore H. White Quotes |
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“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”
Woodrow Wilson Quotes |
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“Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.”
Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
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“History is the devil's scripture.”
Lord Byron Quotes |
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“The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.”
Cicero Quotes |
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“History is a vast early warning system.”
Norman Cousins Quotes |
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“When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.”
Eugene V. Debs Quotes |
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“History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.”
Paul Eldridge Quotes |
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“History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.”
Anatole France Quotes |
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“History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.”
John W. Gardner Quotes |
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“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.”
Edward Gibbon Quotes |
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“We will hereafter believe less history than ever, now that we have seen how it is made.”
Don Herold Quotes |
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“The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of thr majority in the middle.”
Eric Hoffer Quotes |
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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.”
Aldous Huxley Quotes |
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