Erwin McManus Quotes
Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.
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We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
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On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.
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It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.
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The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.
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Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.
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When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.
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Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
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People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important.
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I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians.
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A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
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History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.
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Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
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I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.
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Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts its premises must consent to limit his imagination to a depressing casuistry regarding the formal requirements of modernism.
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When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.
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Becoming is better than being
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I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.
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You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.
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Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.
