Alessandro Manzoni Quotes
But what is history, Don Ferrante would often say, without politics? A guide who walks on and on with no one following to learn the road, so that his every step is wasted; just as politics without history is like a man who walks along without a guide.
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something different you bring to the table. Make sure you are constantly getting into the newest technologies. Learn the history of what you do, and always respect the ones who came before you.
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Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
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'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.
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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
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Custard puddings, sauces and fillings accompany the seven ages of man in sickness and in health.
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I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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I wanted to write a story about colonization and about Hawaii. I went to college right at the height of identity politics, and that's how I always read 'The Tempest,' for example.
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You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for where I want to go with this music, you gotta be humiliated, man. You gotta understand what that feels like. It just makes you stronger.
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A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.
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I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.
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One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.
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The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
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A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
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Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
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My dad was a workaholic. I saw him work seven days a week.
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How you know where I'm at when you haven't been where I've been?
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I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!
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'Recent Gains in the Quest for Peace' in The World tomorrow Vol. 11, No. 1 (January 1928), p. 8; including a quote from the Communist song 'The Advancing Proletaire.'
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The ways in which we are similar are far more numerous than the ways in which we are different.
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But what is history, Don Ferrante would often say, without politics? A guide who walks on and on with no one following to learn the road, so that his every step is wasted; just as politics without history is like a man who walks along without a guide.
