Quotes 421 till 440 of 604.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.
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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
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The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
Conquest of Happiness Ch. 1: What Makes People Unhappy? -
The men who make history have not time to write it.
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The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
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The most revolutionary statement in history is: love thine enemy.
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The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.
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The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
The Critic as Artist (1891) -
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
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The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
Plain Speaking : An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman (1974) door Merle Miller -
The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
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The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country.
Inauguratie 2001 -
The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.
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The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.
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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
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