Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann
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“We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”
Source: Invisible Monsters
“If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.”
Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes
“Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.”
“A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.”
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
“There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.”
Source: The Strategy of Survival: Human Significance of O'Neill's Plays
“Kings are the slaves of history.”
Source: War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
“Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.”
“But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy
“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
Source: Study Guide: Anthem (Study Gudie and Book)
Source: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Source: Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches
“Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.”
“Never say more than is necessary.”
Source: The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch
“There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.”
“He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.”
“The past is always a rebuke to the present.”
Source: Robert Penn Warren talking: interviews, 1950-1978
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7
“People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
Source: The Da Vinci Code
“The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.”
“The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.”
“A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“All great ideas are dangerous.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,
Source: Jefferson: Writings
“We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.”
Source: Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims
Source: Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963