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“I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.”
Cato The Elder Quotes |
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“It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.”
Nicolas Caussin Quotes |
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“While we read history we make history.”
George William Curtis Quotes |
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“Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.”
E. M. Cioran Quotes |
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“We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.”
Nathanael Greene Quotes |
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“Nostalgia is a seductive liar.”
George W. Ball Quotes |
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“As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.”
Gerald Barzan Quotes |
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“Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!”
Edwin C. Bliss Quotes |
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“It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.”
Brian Friel Quotes |
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“Look to the past for guidance into the future.”
Robert Jacob Goodkin Quotes |
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“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
Leslie P. Hartley Quotes |
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“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.”
Billy Joel Quotes |
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“Even the Germans did not succeed in doing the damage you propose to do.”
Edward Finlason Quotes |
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“Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.”
John Hersey Quotes |
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“I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.”
Elizabeth II Quotes |
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“There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.”
Richard M. Nixon Quotes |
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“Time is my greatest enemy.”
Evita Peron Quotes |
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“People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.”
Dan Quayle Quotes |
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“She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.”
Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes |
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“Ireland's ruins are historic emotions surrendered to time.”
Horace Sutton Quotes |
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“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.”
Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes |
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“Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.”
Mao Tse-Tung Quotes |
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“We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just narrowed the candidates to one. And my 31-year naval career flew out the window.”
Adm Stansfield Turner Quotes |
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“The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power; the mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small; when it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
Charles A. Beard Quotes |
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“The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.”
Max Beerbohm Quotes |
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