History Quotes - Page 40

• In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

  Edward de Bono

  Writing, Ignorance, Perception

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Atoms, Nuclear, Atomic Weapons

  Speech on Armistice Day, Boston, Mass., 11 Nov. 1948

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• If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

  James Buchan

  Passion, Waiting, Periods

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• If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Science, Technology, Yesterday

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• If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Change, Wise

  "Now super-rich face a backlash as credit crunch hits home in America" by Joanna Walters, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2008.

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• People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Family, Memories

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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• America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

  George H. W. Bush

  America, People, Presidential

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989

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• To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say, you too can be president of the United States.

  George W. Bush

  Funny, Graduation, Humor

  "Bad results?" by Nikki Sheehan, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2001.

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• Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

  George W. Bush

  Character, Commitment, Compassion

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2001

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• We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Fate, Destiny, People

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• To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

  Samuel Butler

  Love, Life, Healthy

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 14

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• Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Men, Embryos

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4087, Delphi Classics

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• There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

  James Branch Cabell

  Memories, Temptation, Satisfaction

  James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, eBookIt.com

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• Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

  Albert Camus

  Encounters, Want, Nostalgia

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.248, Vintage

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• I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.

  George Canning

  Balance, World, Redress

  Speech in House of Commons, 12 Dec. 1826

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• I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Funny, Science, Bigger

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• History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Being Alone, Creativity, People

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• All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Girl, Humor

  My Autobiography ch. 10 (1964)

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• The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

  Noam Chomsky

  Survival, Institutions, Stage

  Noam Chomsky (2003). “For Reasons Of State”, p.404, Penguin Books India

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• The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

  Agatha Christie

  Time, Book, Memorable

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Speech at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 6 Sept. 1943

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• Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

  Winston Churchill

  Memorial Day, Military, War

  Speech in House of Commons, 20 Aug. 1940

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• We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

  Winston Churchill

  Wisdom, Believe, Cynical

  Quoted in Violet Bonham-Carter, Winston Churchill as I Knew Him (1965)

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• From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Iron, Eastern Europe

  Address at Westminster College, Fulton, Mo., 5 Mar. 1946.

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• 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

  Art, Writing, Past

  Speech in House of Commons, 23 Jan. 1948

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