Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
We live in the midst of the greatest scientific civilization in the history of the world. But the greatest wisdom walking our streets is not in any laboratory scientist, but the wisdom of Jesus Christ.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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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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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
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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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For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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We are wiser than we know.
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My inspiration is love and history.
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I'm honored and blessed by God to be in the sport I love, and I want to accomplish all the goals I set in the sport of boxing - to be successful and make history.
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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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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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There is a long history of founders returning to companies and doing great things. Founders are able to set the vision for their companies with an authority no one else can.
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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
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Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.
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History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
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The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.
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I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.
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We live in the midst of the greatest scientific civilization in the history of the world. But the greatest wisdom walking our streets is not in any laboratory scientist, but the wisdom of Jesus Christ.
