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.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to go down in history.
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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.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.
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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.
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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I don't retain facts very well when it comes to music history.
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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.
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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.
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I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If people perceive 'Roots' to be a black history show, nobody is going to watch it.
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To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
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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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Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
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I love to read history; at its best, it is an art.
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I used to be a night owl. I no longer am a night owl.
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The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you, informs you, challenges you, entertains you, or changes you.
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Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.
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I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.
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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.
