Livy Quotes
This above all makes history useful and desirable: it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
Quotes to Explore
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
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I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.
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On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.
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The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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I love sparkly eyes for the holidays, especially New Year's Eve.
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All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
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One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.
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I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
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I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.
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History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive.
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it.
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down.
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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 feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.
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'But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavour toward better understanding.'
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Music isn`t for the eyes, it`s for the ears.
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There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change every hour, I do not know whether there is a means of giving fixed rules for adapting discourse to the inconstancy of our caprices.
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I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me the enormous power of literature and fired me up with a desire to become a writer, to participate in what I considered then to be the greatest of all endeavors.
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Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.
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This above all makes history useful and desirable: it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
