Famous Quotes: History

My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent digital recorders, wary of the critique implicit in every captured moment. But I also grew to respect and understand their passion for their work, their love for the journey we were sharing.
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So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
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I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
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So many people say that obviously my game has changed since I arrived here and I say that it's good that it changed, otherwise it would show a lack of intelligence.
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I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.
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Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
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What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures.
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In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
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And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.
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But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
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