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“There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.”

Bigs Reading Differences History Seeing Awful Liars

Book:Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)

Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)

“History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.”

Bigs Animal History

Author:Antonio Tabucchi

“Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.”

Wells Littles War Bigs Religion Politics Social History Blood Economic Tiny All Time Bloody Economic Systems

Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt

“I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.”

Source: I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence

“Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.”

Ifs Play Bigs School Guy History College Brother Higher High School Jazz Playing Jazz Jazz And Blues Higher Learning

Author:B. B. King

“Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.”

Ifs Inspirational Should Littles Ends Bigs Motivational History Historical Myth Poetry Is Poetic Contradictory Remakes

Book:Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren: A Literary Correspondence

Source: Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren: A Literary Correspondence