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“The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.”

Men Greater Events He Man Depends Circumstances

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a free and peaceful society--but the educated citizen has a special responsibility by the virtue of his greater understanding. For whether he has ever studied history or current events, ethics or civics, the rules of a profession or the tools of a trade, he knows that only a respect for the law makes it possible for free men to dwell together in peace and progress.”

“Globalization makes our economy, our health, and our security all captive to events on the other side of the world. And no other nation on earth has a greater capacity to shape that global system, or to build consensus around a new set of international rules that expand the zones of freedom, personal safety, and economic well-being. Like it or not, if we want to make America more secure, we are going to have to help make the world more secure.”

Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

“The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from every-day life. Relatively few are free enough from the spell of the daily routine to respond to rappings from outside, and tales of ordinary feelings and events, or of common sentimental distortions of such feelings and events, will always take first place in the taste of the majority; rightly, perhaps, since of course these ordinary matters make up the greater part of human experience.”

Source: H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)

“I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destinies of man.”

Men Writing Believe I Believe Destiny Records Greater Events Movement Duty Supreme Historian Sequence Sweeping

Book:A History of the Crusades: Volume 1, The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

Source: A History of the Crusades: Volume 1, The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

“The greater the crime perpetrated by the leadership, the less likely it is that the people will ever believe their leaders to be capable of perpetrating such an event.”

People Believe Leader Greater Events Crime Capable

Author:Adolf Hitler

“What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.”

Greater Wonderful Events Importance Sublime Wonderful Things Speculation Comprehensive

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

“When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child”

World Years Mind Children Stills Joy Half History Greater Sadness Events Thousand Degrees Distance Fortune Thousand Years Good And Bad Outlines Bad Fortune Joy And Sadness

Author:Johan Huizinga

“[Of the ether] it is no greater mystery at all events than the shoemakers' wax.”

Greater Mystery Events

Author:Lord Kelvin

“The broad mass of a nation will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one. The greater the lie, the greater chance that it will be believed. All epoch-making events have been produced not by the written, but the spoken word.”

Has Beens Bigs Lying Fall Nations Chance Greater Written Events Mass Victim Broads Epoch Spoken Word

Author:Adolf Hitler

“I think it's a greater risk not to write about 9\11. If you're in my position - a New Yorker who felt the event very deeply and a writer who wants to write about things he feels deeply about - I think it's risky to avoid what's right in front of you.”

Ifs Thinking Want Feels Writing Felt Greater Risk Fronts Events Position New Yorkers Very Deep

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.”

Men Mind History Greater Events Magnitude

Book:The Works...

Source: The Works...

“War is the realm of uncertainty; three-quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. ... war is the realm of chance. No other human activity gives it greater scope; no other has such incessant and varied dealings with this intruder. Chance makes everything more uncertain and interferes with the whole course of events.”

Giving Humans War Whole Action Three Courses Chance Greater Events Activity Factors Uncertainty Realms Quarters Uncertain Interfere Fog Scope Human Activity Dealings Incessant Intruders

Book:On War

Source: On War

“The day when we shall know exactly what electricity is will chronicle an event probably greater, more important than any other recorded in the history of the human race. The time will come when the comfort, the very existence, perhaps, of man will depend upon that wonderful agent.”

Knows Men Humans Important Race Existence Greater Wonderful Events Depends Comfort Agents Human Race Electricity Chronicles

Book:On Light and Other High Frequency

Source: On Light and Other High Frequency