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history morality interest
History is not written in the interests of morality. Agnes Repplier
history favors may
History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
history fluid ifs
If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
history action function
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one. Charles de Gaulle
history simply
The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo. Therese Fowler
history men mystique pure ring tradition
There will always be something about two men in the ring - a mystique because it's pure man-to-man competition. Because of the history boxing has and the tradition it holds, boxing will always have a that mystique. Sugar Ray Leonard
history lies people primitive rarely
Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe. Ashwin Sanghi
history indicate people time
When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere. Toyin Odutola
history known worth year
What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other. Thomas Starr King
military planning-ahead planning-things
Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now. Alan Lakein
military mean people
In its proper constitutional sense, the term [militia] means all the able-bodied people who can be trained and disciplined to act in the community’s defence when it’s attacked. Since it encompasses every able-bodied person, it does not refer to those—such as the police, the military, or even the National Guard—who formally compose the official defence forces of the nation. Every citizen able and willing to act in an emergency becomes a potential defender against attacks aimed at the general population. Alan Keyes
military war risk
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
military destiny instruments
I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
military rain weather
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
military people diplomats
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.
military drinking and-love
The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making. Charles Dickens
military opportunity land
American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Charles Stanley
military kids kentucky
His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky. David Morrell
rounds
I am a little surprised, but delighted, to be back in it and with two rounds to go anything is still possible, Catriona Matthew
round season
This season will be his season. His all round game's a lot better and there's a lot more to come from him. Steven Gerrard
round
You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen. Lefty Grove
round
It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring. Samantha Fox
rounds work
All work done mindfully rounds us out, helps complete us as persons.
round scale
If we scale back in Hong Kong, we should not scale back for the round as a whole. It is too important. Peter Mandelson
round state win
Overall, I'm happy. During the first round of the state tournament, you just want to get a win and get the jitters out.
rounds spoke washington
Laffey was in Washington making the rounds and I spoke with him then, Pat Toomey
round turned walked
I would have turned round right then and walked away. John Lennon
top-down simplicity doe
Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. Alan Perlis
topshop urban apparel
I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets. Chloe Grace Moretz
topics until
Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today. Benoit Mandelbrot
topics philosopher boring
...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring. Brandon Sanderson
toppers microsoft company
I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company. Bill Gates
top
We'll be around the top of our division.
top
She has to be (on the top of her game).
top-down challenges charity
Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations. Eduardo Galeano
topics knows
Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic. Bruce Feiler
views issues doctrine
In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues. Carl Bernstein
views roots squares
That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill-adapted notation. If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and lateral units, instead of positive, negative and imaginary (or even impossible), such an obscurity would have been out of the question. Carl Friedrich Gauss
views hands serious
Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will. C. S. Lewis
views doe indifference
The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
views where-you-come matter
In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from. Aasif Mandvi
views perspective point-of-view
A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points Alan Kay
views effort suffering
It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts, the difficulties of others. Charlotte Bronte
views safe edges
Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better Ricky Gervais
views world universal-truth
In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false. Brian Cox