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  • Lord John Whorfin History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.
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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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  • 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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  • Camille Paglia Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the best American higher criticism.
    Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • T. Hood Home-made dishes that drive one from home.
    T. Hood
     
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  • Alexander Pope Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • William Shenstone Hope is a flatterer but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut as well as the palace of his superior.
    William Shenstone
    English poet (1714 - 1763)
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  • Vaclav Havel Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • William James How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ernest Hemingway How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Bill Hybels How would you feel if your prayer requests were made public, displayed on a billboard or marquee? Dear Lord, make me famous. Make me rich.
    Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Afrika Bambaataa How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Havelock Ellis However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Aaron Klug However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Bubba Smith Hugh Wilson made it so real and he took us and it was almost when he was directing it, the way he would do it was funnier than the way we did it. And I just developed a regard for him that was unbelievable.
    Bubba Smith
    American professional football player (1945 - )
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  • Simone Weil Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Jane Austen Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Barbara Block Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
    Barbara Block
     
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