Jack Straw Quotes
We have just made history, ... We've had the first ministerial meeting on the opening of accession negotiations.
Jack Straw
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To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.
Hans Jonas
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Karl Marx
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During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.
Gavin Newsom
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I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
Caleb Carr
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History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.
Yitzhak Navon
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The history of blacks is complicated, fragmented, disturbing to contemplate - not a neat trail of challenges met or of felled trees blocking the path to the mountain top.
Darryl Pinckney
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This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.
John Perkins
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Belief in God is so deranged that it makes absolutely no sense, but it holds people together somehow.
Peter Morgan
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I grew up never thinking about acting as a profession because that was what my mum did, and often, you don't want to be like your parents.
Margaret Qualley
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When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
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We have just made history, ... We've had the first ministerial meeting on the opening of accession negotiations.
Jack Straw
