Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Augustine Birrell History is a pageant and not a philosophy.
    Orbiter dicta
    Augustine Birrell
    British Liberal Party politician (1850 - 1933)
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  • Bill Nye History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Carl Sagan History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly belong to all of us. We must not let it happen again.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 36 min 20 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Jeanette Winterson History is not a suicide note, it is a record of our survival.
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Malcolm X History is not hatred.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Mark Twain History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Walter Bagehot History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Bennie Thompson History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Oswald Chambers Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Orson Welles Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Christian Morgenstern Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
    Christian Morgenstern
    German poet (1871 - 1914)
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  • Bethany McLean Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a great deal of risk. Moreover, even in a strong economy, unforeseen life events and risks in local real estate markets make highly leveraged borrowers vulnerable.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Brendan Myers Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of all time, such as Alexander the Great, Pericles of Athens, Hannibal of Carthage, and Julius Caesar of Rome, were all pagans, or else living in a pagan society.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Herbert Hoover Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • George Robert Gissing Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May - how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.
    George Robert Gissing
    English writer (1857 - 1903)
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