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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
reign becoming mediocrity
That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable; but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and inhibiting, this is what is as true as it is distressing. Charles Baudelaire
reign saws corny
Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!? Bruce Sterling
reign shepherds ashes
I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over! Elizabeth I
reign truth-is crime
And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed? Blaise Pascal
reign ruins needs
The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan. Edward McKendree Bounds
reign virtue monk
[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks. Edward Gibbon
reign
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. John Milton
reign reigns speech spoken unspoken
When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.
reign
Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
emperor request
With the which request the emperor was not well pleased, and would not let me go any more for my country, but to bide in his land. Will Adams
emperor hugely
She's hugely powerful. She should really be the emperor herself. Polly Walker
emperor looking mark purpose sacred shops spend tea time
It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea shops Ernest Bramah
emperor himself hung last tree
In 1644, the last Ming emperor ... he hung himself from a tree just over there. Mao Zedong
emperor 20th-century
That was Robert Aldrich. And that [Emperor Of The North] was one of the only times I actually got a part in a movie in the conventional way: The role was there, I auditioned, I auditioned again, and then I actually did a full-fledged screen test, which they shot on a soundstage on the lot at 20th Century Fox. They put up a set, and Robert Aldrich actually directed me in this screen test. Keith Carradine
emperor sat section special
In Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Coliseum called the Caesarian Section George Carlin
emperor
But the Emperor has nothing at all on! Hans Christian Andersen