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" Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. "
Benjamin Disraeli
Man
Great Man
Succeed
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" My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. "
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" Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. "
Will Durant
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Too Much
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" History shows that there are no invincible armies. "
Joseph Stalin
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History
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" I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French. "
Charles de Gaulle
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Will
" The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it. "
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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" When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group. "
Adam Hamilton
Children
Science
School
" History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes. "
David Weinberger
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Events
Changes
" I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history. "
Erskine Bowles
Face
History
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" There's not another lip-synch song on the planet, in the history of lip-synching songs, that has been lip-synched more than 'I Will Survive.' "
RuPaul
Will
History
Been
" History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom. "
Daisaku Ikeda
Wisdom
Differences
History
" It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution. "
Mitch McConnell
Constitution
History
Independence
" I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history. "
Ben Casnocha
History
Map
Just
" To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history. "
Auguste Comte
Know
Understand
History
" My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history. "
Jose Mujica
History
Wounds
Lifestyle
" For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. "
Winston Churchill
Past
Leave
Myself
" Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often. "
John Burroughs
People
Important
Moral
" I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it. "
Kanye West
Too
History
Like
" As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. "
Benjamin Disraeli
Successful
Best
Information
" A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. "
Margaret Thatcher
More
World
Without
" Harlem is not a playground for rich bankers and consultants. It's got students of all colors. It's got old people who keep history and tell tall tales. "
Marcus Samuelsson
People
Rich
Old
" The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves. "
Jared Diamond
Differences
Me
Human
" Koreans love to dance; they love to sing. If you actually know Koreans, you see how absurd the stereotype of the 'Asian robot' is. They love to laugh - they're very affectionate. Maybe because of their history of oppression, when they feel you are part of their tribe, they are intensely loyal. I love that about Koreans! "
Min Jin Lee
You
Dance
History
" You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope. "
Thich Nhat Hanh
Peace
History
Hope
" There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. "
Woodrow Wilson
Hot
Great
Wrath
" In August 1945, a former Army pilot with an artificial leg pitched five and a third innings for Washington against Boston. This would turn out to be Bert Shepard's only major league game, and it remains one of the heartwarming moments in baseball history. "
George Vecsey
Moments
Army
Baseball
" Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me. "
Fidel Castro
Does
History
Matter
" The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are. "
Maya Angelou
You
More
History
" You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school. "
Stephen Ambrose
Hate
History
You
" I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I'd rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it. "
Gore Vidal
Job
Writing
Myself