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«The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.»
Author: Frederic William Maitland
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essential, happened, history, matter, said, The Histories, thought
«Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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ascetic, ascetics, condemn, condemning, drive, drive in, has-been, history, pleasures, power, religions, seek, sense, The Vice, throughout, vice
«Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.»
Author: Ani Difranco
(Guitarist, Singer, Song Writer)
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Strangers
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ends, exciting, faces, history, looking at, mystery, Strangers, The Faces
«Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.»
Author: Gustave Flaubert
(Novelist)
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causes, history, ignorance, our own, slander, slandered, slandering, Slanders
«Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Poetry
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expresses, finer, history, particular, Particulars, philosophical, poetry, universal, Universals
«Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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endure, extinguished, extinguishes, extinguishing, history, ones, personalities, strong, The Histories, weak
«Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
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call, Historians, history, now, revisionist, rewrite, rewriting, rewritten, some, There are, The Histories, would
«Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Evil,
History,
Inspiration,
Love,
Truth
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End of time, fall, history, invincible, in the end, murderers, seem, The Invincible, think of, tyrants, won
«Service without ideal of self . . . trains you to transcend all the artificial distinctions imposed by history and geography, and to realize that the human community is one and indivisible.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
artificial, community, community service, distinctions, geography, history, ideal, imposed, indivisible, In Training, service, trains, transcend, transcended
«Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
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