Quotes 2861 till 2880 of 11281.
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Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
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Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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History is a pageant and not a philosophy.
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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.
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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 -
History is not a suicide note, it is a record of our survival.
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History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.
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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.
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History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.
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Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
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Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
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Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.
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Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.
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