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The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.
Author: Ashurnasirpal
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History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.
Author: Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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One of the lessons of history is that 'nothing' is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Author: Will Durant
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
Author: Oliver Cromwell
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
Author: Marquis De Sade
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What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men.
Author: Irving R. Kaufman
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It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Author: Henry A. Kissinger
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
Author: Bertolt Brecht
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A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive;" or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture -- in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.
Author: Andrea Dworkin
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I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities. I failed history.
Author: Unknown History Student
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Failure is impossible.
Author: Susan B. Anthony
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Author: Louis D. Brandeis
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The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
Author: Jacques Chirac
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They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
Author: Gen Douglas Macarthur
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We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or the last.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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The men who make history have not time to write it.
Author: Metternich
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Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
Author: Lawrence Durrell
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Might does not make right, it only makes history.
Author: Jim Fiebig
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We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
Author: John Guare
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No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
Author: Herbert Hoover
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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
Author: Saul Bellow
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Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
Author: Unknown History Student
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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
Author: A. Whitney Brown
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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
Author: Herodotus
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To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
Author: Charles J. Givens
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
Author: Marcus T. Cicero
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Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
Author: John Quincy Adams
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Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
Author: Dante Alighieri
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We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
Author: Tony Blair
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Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.
Author: Frederich Wilhelm Nietzche
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Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Author: George Orwell
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Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.
Author: D. J. Enright
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In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.
Author: Farouk I
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Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
Author: Heywood Broun
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With the Kennedys, the genes are in magnificent alignment, but the stars are demonstrably crossed.
Author: John Carman
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
Author: Barry M. Goldwater
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You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.
Author: George M. Humphrey
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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.".
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
Author: Irving R. Kaufman
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It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
Author: Alan Alda
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The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.
Author: Finley Peter Dunne
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History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
Author: Augustine Birrell
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
Author: Henry James
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Author: William J. Durant
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The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.
Author: Andrea Dworkin
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Author: Samuel Butler
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Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
Author: William O. Douglas
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The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
Author: Nikita S. Khrushchev
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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