Tacitus Quotes
This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
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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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What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.
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I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to write. It has to come to me in my head like someone telling me the words.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.
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Indeed, throughout much of history and in many cultures, redheads have been viewed with suspicion and fear - and even killed - because of their hair.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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Always, in every human action, there are leaders.
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I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.
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The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
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My tongue is what I used instead of my fists because I was a small and cowardly young man. Amusing people with stories and being bizarre with words was my way of getting out of fixes.
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No batch of 10 people will have as much an influence on the company as those first 10 people.
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That's definitely more of a classic sound. We've been encouraging him to do it for quite some time and I'm glad that he's finally come to his senses and has decided to show the world how great he can rip on that thing.
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I've never experienced sexual harassment at work, but I 100% believe and support everyone that has come forward, because I'm very lucky that it has never happened to me.
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This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
