Elizabeth Coleman Quotes
History provides a laboratory in which we see played out the actual, as well as the intended, consequences of ideas.Elizabeth Coleman
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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.
Yvette Clarke -
There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
P. J. O'Rourke -
If you look at the history of large financial institutions, most of them have succeeded because of a deep presence in their home market.
Uday Kotak -
I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
Nathan Fillion -
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln -
I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.
Caitlin Moran
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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.
Daisaku Ikeda -
The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
Laura Esquivel -
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.
Randy Houser -
Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
Gail Collins -
The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.
Haniel Long -
I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
Sacha Baron Cohen
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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.
Eduard Shevardnadze -
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
B. H. Liddell Hart -
I'm sure in the history of Harvard, and the history of most schools, there's been some pretty crazy parties that I'm not even sure you could even capture on film how silly and ridiculous they were.
Cameron Winklevoss -
I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
Eddie Izzard -
Therefore, every country has to understand that fighting against international terrorism is not for the sake of the United States, but for the sake of themselves, and, to a larger extent, in the name of stability of international relations.
Omar Bongo -
To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.
Hans Jonas
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If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak -
I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase.
Doris Lessing -
I change my beauty routine every six months, but I make sure to use products that are light and gentle.
Chiara Ferragni -
Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
Pam Grier -
History provides a laboratory in which we see played out the actual, as well as the intended, consequences of ideas.
Elizabeth Coleman