Sushmita Banerjee (Sayeda Kamala) Quotes
The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past.
Sushmita Banerjee
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In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.
Jacky Ickx
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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.
Edmund Morgan
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.
Carla Bruni
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I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
G. H. Hardy
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I've noticed that the few times I've traveled first class myself, you've already got your drink, and your coat has been taken by the time the rest of the passengers file on, and it's hard not to feel sorry for them. They're sort of trooping past you like cows to slaughter and you're sitting there in your, you know, wide-body seat.
Walter Kirn
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I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.
Daniel Baldwin
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There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future: the Establishment and the Movement. At times the resistance is reanimated, the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
Vernon Howard
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Stilled legendary depth:It was as deep as England. It heldPike too immense to stir, so immense and oldThat past nightfall I dared not cast.
Ted Hughes
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Historians whose profession is to study the past, are as wary as scientists of the idea that events unfold in a manner that can be predicted. In fact, in a study of history the illusion of inevitability has serious consequences that it is one of the few things that both conservative and socialist historians can agree on.
Leonard Mlodinow
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Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him.
C. S. Lewis
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I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.
Christopher Hitchens
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Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.
Yevgeny Baratynsky
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Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.
Carl von Clausewitz
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The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past.
Sushmita Banerjee
