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“Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.”

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Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman is a renowned American actor, born on January 30, 1930. He is known for his exceptional acting skills and diverse character portrayals, having won an Academy Award for Best Actor. more

“The bomb was necessary to awaken England from her dreams. We dropped the bomb on the floor of the assembly chamber to register our protest on behalf of those who had no other means left to give expression to their heart-rending agony. Our sole purpose was to make the deaf hear and give the heedless a timely warning. Others have as keenly felt as we have done and from such seeming stillness of the sea of Indian humanity, a veritable storm is about to break out.”

Source: Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation

“Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.”

Long Has Beens Values Walks Views Behinds Appreciate Extraordinary Psychological Prisoner Confined

Book:Jawaharlal Nehru, an autobiography: with musings on recent events in India

Source: Jawaharlal Nehru, an autobiography: with musings on recent events in India

“It is the prime responsibility of every citizen to feel that his country is free and to defend its freedom is his duty. Every Indian should now forget that he is a Rajput, a Sikh or a Jat. He must remember that he is an Indian and he has every right in this country but with certain duties.”

Feels Should Country Remember Certain Forget Responsibility Duty Citizens Indian Prime

Author:Vallabhbhai Patel

“History is the memory of a nation”

Nations Memories

Author:Thomas Sowell

“"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.”

Knows Enough Past Events Circumstances Complexes Repeats Analogies Repeating History History Repeats Itself Past Events

Author:G. M. Trevelyan

“History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.”

Social Movement Products Social Movements

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.”

Mind Humans Spirit Known Struggle Records Progress Objectives Human Mind Human Spirit Advancement Human Progress

Book:Sept. 1964-May 1949

Source: Sept. 1964-May 1949

“God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.”

Thinking Break Laughter Bones Wounds Vanity Blunders Rashness

Book:The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God

Source: The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God

“Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us laugh is a mystery - an involuntary response.”

Laughing Mystery Intellectual Laughter Response Beacons Involuntary Prisms

Author:Dennis Miller

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