Famous Quotes: Past

I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.
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Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
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The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country.
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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
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Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
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The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal.
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I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.
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What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
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I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.
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So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.
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When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.
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