Leopold von Ranke Quotes
It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.
Leopold von Ranke
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There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.
Aaron Swartz
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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
Alfred Nobel
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Now when I was a teenager, I was angsty as any teenager was, but after 17 years of having a mother who was in and out of my life like a yo-yo and a father who was faceless, I was angry.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
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Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors.
Bob Taft
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I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.
Mario Balotelli
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I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.
John Burns
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Those inevitable dreams where you can't get your column in, you know, and at first they were the Xerox telecopy, and then they were the fax machine, and then they were, you know, email. The anxiety remains the same, but the technology has changed.
Ellen Goodman
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When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him.
Thomas Hobbes
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
Raha Moharrak
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He wrote stories about everything he saw, and he saw a lot. He walked through the streets of Brooklyn along the water, or leaned against the store windows on Livingston Street watching people hurrying along, making up stories about this one or that one.
Patricia Reilly Giff
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It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.
Leopold von Ranke