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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
historians
Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.
historian recorders visuals
I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian. David Burnett
historians illuminate invisible power roads shape taken time
I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time? Rick Perlstein
historian historians reflect speaking
I've said before that I am not a historian and that when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust, it is the historians that should reflect on it. Hassan Rouhani
historians human prefer
The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction. Niall Ferguson
historian millennia worldwide
What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense, any more than malaria or meningitis makes sense. Paul Johnson
historian repeats
History never repeats itself, historians do. Lee Benson
historian happened
History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us. Julian Barnes
historian novelist wants
The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did. Michael Korda
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I learned to run backwards from Muhammad Ali. He told me about running backwards because you try to imitate everything you do in the ring, so sometimes you back up. So you have to train your legs to go backwards.
backwards confident rehearsing students
We started rehearsing this backwards ... so that once the students were on the spot, they would be more confident with that.
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There are some guys that come off bad, but sometimes those people need you to come off like that. Sometimes they force you to come off like that, because you may tell them four or five times to go on, and they'll come back with their cap turned backwards and try again. Those are all tricks of the trade. Ozzie Smith
backwards caring coming late stopped waiting whether
We stopped caring whether he was coming or not. If he came, he came. If he didn't, he didn't. He's here now, but he's late and we're not waiting for him. We're not going to go backwards waiting for him. Pat Williams
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My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated - every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young. Mark Helprin
backwards
Me? I'm going to grow backwards and be a kid again. Guy Laliberte
backwards both camera
A Leica camera is a camera we can keep both eyes open. You can look for the free eye that doesn't look to viewfinder and in all directions. It's like backwards - and sometimes also backwards, and you can look for the viewfinder and see your picture. Horst Faas
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She is a very bright woman who knows public policy backwards and forwards and who has reached out to a diverse constituency, especially upstate. I'm very impressed.
backwards catching looking maybe past reason
Let's look at the past 20 years - maybe you had a lot of catching up to do. You're looking backwards as your reason for not getting a settlement this time. Mark Richardson