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“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

“Less cars on the road means productivity and jobs growth, as it allows for the more efficient movement of goods and services and encourages greater urban population density.”

Mean Jobs Growth Greater Car Movement Population Productivity Goods Efficient Urban Density Goods And Services Job Growth Population Density

Author:Anthony Albanese

“Richard Nixon was not the lesser evil, he was the greater evil, but in his administration the war was finally brought to an end, because he had to deal with the power of the anti-war movement as well as the power of the Vietnamese movement. I will vote, but always with a caution that voting is not crucial, and organizing is the important thing.”

Wells Important War Ends Evil Deals Greater Movement Vote Important Things Administration Voting Crucial Anti War Caution Vietnamese Lesser Evil Anti War Movement

Author:Howard Zinn

“India's democracy where over 1 billion people have a voice in deciding their future is a world example of how governance can incorporate diversity into a movement for inclusive growth. New modes of democratic engagement, especially through using e-governance are allowing greater access to fundamental rights for all our people.”

People World Growth Voice Democracy Greater Rights Example Movement Diversity India Fundamentals Democratic Access Billions Allowing Engagement Governance Fundamental Rights

Author:Narendra Modi

“Therefore the solid body of the earth is reasonably considered as being the largest relative to those moving against it and as remaining unmoved in any direction by the force of the very small weights, and as it were absorbing their fall. And if it had some one common movement, the same as that of the other weights, it would clearly leave them all behind because of its much greater magnitude. And the animals and other weights would be left hanging in the air, and the earth would very quickly fallout of the heavens. Merely to conceive such things makes them appear ridiculous.”

Ifs Body Would Be Earth Moving Science Fall Left Force Heaven Animal Common Behinds Greater Air Movement Weight Ridiculous Relative Gravity Magnitude Absorbing Fallouts Left Hanging

Author:Ptolemy

“Just as a classical dancer repeats the same movements again and again, in order to achieve a greater perfection of line and balance, so Degas repeats the same motifs - it was one of the things that gave him so much sympathy with dancers.”

Order Lines Greater Achieve Movement Balance Perfection Repeats Dancer Again And Again Repetition Motifs Degas

Author:Kenneth Clark

“The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.”

World Law Greater Rights Movement Gay Computer Threat Nuclear Abortion Pornography Gay Rights Nuclear Families Abortion Laws

Author:Alvin Toffler

“The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of her soul...This is the truly creative dancer, natural but not imitative, speaking in movement out of herself and out of something greater than all selves.”

Soul Self Body Natural Creative Greater Movement Manifestation Dancer Luminous

Author:Isadora Duncan

“Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder than that inconceivably complex movement which, in its entirety, we designate as human life; Its mysterious origin is veiled in the forever impenetrable mist of the past, its character is rendered incomprehensible by its infinite intricacy, and its destination is hidden in the unfathomable depths of the future... .”

Mind Humans Character Past Wonder Forever Greater Movement Infinite Complexes Depth Senses Endless Mysterious Variety Human Life Destination Mist Unfathomable Entirety Intricacy

Book:The Tesla Papers

Source: The Tesla Papers