Famous Quotes: History

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.
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There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.
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I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
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In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.
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Professional sports are something they can't control.
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One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.
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I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
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On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.
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I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.
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A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
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Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.
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I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06.
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History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
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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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