William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

William Tecumseh Sherman

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• I want to go down in history.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
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• Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.

  

  Caleb Cushing
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• The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.

  

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• History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
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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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• Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.

  

  Rachel Skarsten
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• Chopper Read attended a writing school I gave for inmates at Risdon Prison in Hobart many years ago. Even if I hadn't known about his hacked-off ears and his criminal history, I'd have found him powerful and compelling.

  

  Garry Disher
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• To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

  

  Auguste Comte
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• I don't retain facts very well when it comes to music history.

  

  Lucy Dacus
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• 'War and Peace' holds a strange place in literary history, participating in the crowning of realism as a substantial and serious literary mode in America, even as the novel also contributed to the argument that historical fiction could be by nature dangerous, illegitimate, and inaccurate.

  

  Alexander Chee
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• You can look at history of these things, and Social Security wasn't devised to be a system that supported you for a 30-year retirement after a 25-year career... So there will be things that, you know, the retirement age has to be changed, maybe some of the benefits have to be affected, maybe some of the inflation adjustments have to be revised.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein
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• I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

  

  Jacques Barzun
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• Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
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• With how huge Yes was, especially in the '70s and '80s, as a touring band and actually playing at the JFK Stadium in Philadelphia to 130,000 people, which is the biggest-paying show ever in rock history, you would think we'd done enough for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

  

  Chris Squire Yes
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• I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the investigation of. But at the heart of it was a fictional character.

  

  Doug Liman
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• If people perceive 'Roots' to be a black history show, nobody is going to watch it.

  

  David L. Wolper
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• To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

  

  Daniel Libeskind
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• The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

  

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• When you put on music, just feel it; it's a different sense. I walk around with music in, and it can just change my world in seconds.

  

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• Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

  

  Chris Pine
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• There are artists that actually don't like going into the studio. They get mad when people say they've got a session. I'm just the opposite. I actually enjoy it.

  

  Jeremih Felton
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• We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We make a vessel from a lump of clay; But it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. We make doors and windows for a room; But it is the empty spaces that make the room livable. Thus, while existence has advantages, It is the emptiness that makes it useful.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

  

  William Tecumseh Sherman
  • History
  • Generations
  • Passing