Albert Camus Quotes
A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.
Quotes to Explore
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We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
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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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Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.
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There is a long history of founders returning to companies and doing great things. Founders are able to set the vision for their companies with an authority no one else can.
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I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.
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I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the first time, 14 with my dad, you know, and there I am, at 22, 23, whatever I was, sitting next to my mom. You know, and then again, there with my dad. Like, there's a beauty to it, and I care deeply about film history.
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Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
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The history of Guitar Hero is pretty spectacular. Really, I don't know of another franchise that has captured the imagination of the world so quickly and so powerfully and so positively in such a short period of time.
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Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.
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You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.
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There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go.
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Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
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Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails.
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The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world to the sole disposal of a magistrate, created and circumstanced, as would be a President of the United States.
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Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people.
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A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.
