Constance Baker Motley Quotes
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
Olivia d'Abo
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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 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.
Tadao Ando
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
Orhan Pamuk
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
Ferdinand Marcos
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Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.
Rafael Palmeiro
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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.
Edmund Morgan
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
Mahmoud Darwish
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
J. William Fulbright
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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.
C. S. Lewis
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The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.
B. H. Liddell Hart
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Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history. Finally, a few trips to the library, and we have a pretty good sense of what all the masters said. They all said the same things. There is a mass discovery that Jesus is truth, the Torah is truth, Mohammed is truth, Krishna is truth, Buddha is truth, and so on. They are all truth and they are all among us now.
Marianne Williamson
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The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external and scientific requirements for the birth of an idea have long been there, it generally needs an external stimulus to make it actually happen; man has, so to speak, to stumble right up against the thing before the idea comes.
Albert Einstein
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Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that there's nothing else you could have done.
Hannah Kearney
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The European leagues have been there a long time, the coaches have been there, the clubs have been there, there's history to the teams. There's already that football support culture.
Christen Press
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We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.
Constance Baker Motley
