Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

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• Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Trying
  • History
  • Wife

• Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Technology
  • Humanity
  • Wrong

• If you gonna challenge my ways, know my history. Don't put nobody in my face that don't know about me, or they here to write an article on someone they thought was hot when they was hot. Come on, man. I been hot.

  

  Raekwon
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• Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Done
  • Humanity

• You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
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• History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • History
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  • Find

• History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • History
  • Past

• When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • History
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  • Bible

• I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • History
  • Freedom

• Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Men
  • History

• Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • History
  • Mother
  • Poetry

• My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.

  

  Taryn Simon
  • Work
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• Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • World
  • Real
  • History

• The history of Guitar Hero is pretty spectacular. Really, I don't know of another franchise that has captured the imagination of the world so quickly and so powerfully and so positively in such a short period of time.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Time
  • World
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• History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • History
  • Science
  • Human

• Telluride has an incredible history and reputation, and I've long known of it as a unique entity that makes a place for writers - one more aspect of this exceptional film festival in the Colorado Alps.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Long
  • History
  • Unique

• A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • History
  • Small
  • Faith

• There are so many times and places in history in our world that I just don't know anything about, and when I learn about them they're always fascinating.

  

  Andrew Stanton
  • World
  • History

• This is a milestone event in the history of aerospace. For the first time in all of space flight, a facility is now available for regularly scheduled, private space launches. Thanks to the vision of the State of New Mexico, as well as the aerospace capabilities provided by our company, the 'final frontier' is now open to everyone.

  

  Eric Knight
  • History
  • Company
  • Flight

• I love that theatre can be political. You can go watch a play; it sends out messages, and you can go away thinking differently to the way you thought about it before.

  

  Cressida Bonas
  • Thinking
  • Political
  • Theatre

• Some of the best times I've ever had in my life have been because of acting and through acting. But I'm not interested in the game of acting and being an actor and auditioning and all that stuff.

  

  John Gordon Sinclair
  • Life
  • Game

• I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • History
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  • Humanity