John Burns Quotes
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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If you look at the history of large financial institutions, most of them have succeeded because of a deep presence in their home market.
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I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
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NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
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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.
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Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
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I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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The biggest battles in human history can only ever be seen through the eyes of the bloke on the front line, and that's by definition a very focused view and one that will vary from individual to individual.
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I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.
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History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
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The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars.
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So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in their own neighborhood... in carrying out their own purposes and interests in their sphere of the world.
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Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.
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When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try to bear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity.
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The Thames is liquid history.
