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" The Gospel is not a theory; the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea; the Gospel is not a way of thinking or feeling. The Gospel is an event in history. "
John Piper
Thinking
History
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" When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased. "
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" I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn. "
Walton Goggins
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" I have very close friends who are very devout Catholics, and I talked to them before the 'Da Vinci Code,' and it was very difficult for them, but I talked to them before 'Angels and Demons,' and they said the scandal, abuse of power and violence was part of church history, which you can read about in the Vatican bookstore. "
Ron Howard
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" Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another. "
Dick Gregory
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" The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women. "
Queen Elizabeth II
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" What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality? "
Philip Zimbardo
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" Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always. "
Andre Malraux
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" I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments. "
Friedrich August von Hayek
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" They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear. "
G. Gordon Liddy
Welcome
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" I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me. "
Ted Kulongoski
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" I go into my library and all history unrolls before me. "
Alexander Smith
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Library
Go
" The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history. "
Ha-Joon Chang
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Most
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" Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve. "
John Piper
Diabetes
Football
Women
" The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is why absorbing the culture all around us and its priorities is so dangerous. "
John Piper
Us
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God
" Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. "
Douglas MacArthur
War
Peace
Honor
" I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America. "
Shirley Chisholm
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America
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" 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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Story
Technology
" To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history. "
Eckhart Tolle
Thought
History
Mind
" A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. "
Margaret Thatcher
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Without
" I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes. "
Nathaniel Philbrick
English
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" A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. "
Marcus Garvey
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History
Tree
" Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race. "
Mary McLeod Bethune
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" Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another. "
Richard M. Nixon
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" While I was thinking about the next film to do, I was also reading this book by Diane Ackerman called 'The Natural History of the Senses' - an anthropological and sociological look at the senses. But it also has this great sense of enthusiasm. "
Jeremy Podeswa
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" The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster. "
Bill Gates
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Worst
" We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind. "
Juan Antonio Samaranch
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Religion
" Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. "
H. L. Mencken
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Historian
" At a purely practical level, history is important because it provides the basic skills needed for students to go further in sociology, politics, international relations and economics. History is also an ideal discipline for almost all careers in the law, the civil service and the private sector. "
Antony Beevor
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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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History
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" Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. "
Aristotle
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