Quotes 501 till 520 of 604.
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To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive around in my car, I'll listen to college lectures on philosophy and literature and world history, things like that, to kind of catch up on the college experience I missed.
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To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
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To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.
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Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.
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Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
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Very few wars in American history were prepared better or more throughly than this one by this president.
March 1, 2003 -
Washington's birthday is worthy of celebration - he is one of the greatest men in history. But Washington himself would likely have seen celebration of the office of the presidency itself as monarchic in nature.
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We all remember the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. What is less well known is that BP is claiming a 9.9 billion tax deduction on the money they had to spend cleaning up their own mess and paying for damages they caused. That is absurd.
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We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.
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We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history.
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We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
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We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
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We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.
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We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
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We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.
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We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.
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We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.
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We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
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