Henry St. John Quotes
To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.
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The challenge will be to bring more uranium production online to assure market balance.
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It keeps agitating and worrying us there, ... They're trying to get it to calm down.
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The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.
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We're on a collision course for disaster. All we can do, all your viewers can do is brace for impactBuy gold. Buy silver Get as far away as you can from U.S. currency and the U.S. economy.
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The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.
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The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.
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I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have the courage to acknowledge anything, the courage to possess, to own anything.
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I'm very accepting of how people live their lives.
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Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive.
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One of Caesar’s most successful and long-lasting alliances was with various Jewish communities.
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The past haunts the present in mores ways than we realize. It certainly scares the living daylights out of me.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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'Footprints On The Moon' plans to inspire and incite positive and catalytic change.
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Cowards never lasted long enough to become real cowboys.
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To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.
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The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat.
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I fed them every day. So it was a papa that kept food on the table for them. I did that. I did my part.
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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
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To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover the play of anticipations or echoes, to go right back to the first seeds or to go forward to the last traces, to reveal in a work its fidelity to tradition or its irreducible uniqueness, to raise or lower its stock of originality, to say that the Port -Royal grammarians invented nothing, or to discover that Cuvier had more predecessors than one thought, these are harmless enough amusements for historians who refuse to grow up.
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In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth. Someone once told me, "Even when building the imperial palace, they always leave one place unfinished." In both Buddhist and Confucian writings of the philosophers of former times, there are also many missing chapters.
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If historians are not skeptical, they are nothing.
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To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.
