Donald Kagan Quotes
History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
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I have, like, 45 celeb crushes at all times - celeb and Instagram crushes. I'm such a creep.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.
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I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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I do not need any promise of eternity to be happy. My eternity is now. I have only one interest: to fulfill my purpose here where I am. This purpose is not given me by my parents or my surroundings. It is induced by some unknown factors. These factors make me a part of eternity.
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You want to have a good cake? Get two engineers to build it.
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A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.
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It was disappointing, as if a wish she didn’t know she’d made hadn’t come true.
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History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
